The Touch … The Feel … Of Plastic

Does anyone remember watching TV on Sunday mornings seeing ads for plastics and how they are going to save man kind?

Well, apparently plastic is a new enemy. Environment California’s web site has an informative posting about the effects of #7 plastics on not only a child’s developmental process, but the increased risks of cancer in adults who use #7 plastics.

[ Read the Environment California Posting: Toxic Baby Bottles ]

So it makes me wonder… How long have we been using plastics? Think about it, plastic was the wonder material that would allow the world to be free from the confines of aluminum and steal. Remember your Star Wars action figures and your Barbie Dolls. It is a primary mechanism of the modern economy and its marketing.

It only makes sense that the incidents of ADD and the incidents of cancer in the populations are rising at alarming rates that correlate the uses of plastics in our everyday lives.

But hey, it’s new, its wonderful, its assumed to be great for us… right? Think about what its made of? petroleum by-products. Doesn’t this start to make you shiver when you see the kind of ill effects the petroleum industry has had on us, and how entrenched they are in our everyday lives.

But what do I know….?