Are cardboard cups better than Timeplast?
A new study led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that disposable coffee cups coated with low-density polyethylene (LDPE) can release trillions of plastic nanoparticles when exposed to boiling water.
“The main takeaway here is that there are plastic particles wherever we look. There are a lot of them. Trillions per liter. We don’t know if those have bad health effects on people or animals. We just have a high confidence that they’re there,” said study lead author Christopher Zangmeister, a chemist at NIST.
At Timeplast we believe that the effects of microplastics’ biomagnification are starting to cause the plastification of the entire food chain given that unlike toxic elements of the past such as asbestos and lead, microplastics are non-soluble, in other words, they’ll continue to accumulate in our bodies for generations. This is why we believe that water solubility is the only way to go, by adapting our waste to the Grand Chemistry of our planets, we are engaging in a planetary-safe actual circular economy.
The entire study can be read here:
