Recycling damages your Cornflakes
Discussion
k me, you're telling me that it's taken until 2011 to realise that inks contained in recycled materials could be toxic? I would have thought that was something addressed at the beginning of recycling god knows how many years back. 
We're talking mineral oils here. Printing ink saw big changes years ago over toxins, but dangers are always posed in this sort of area. Recycling tons of newsprint and printed card to make cartons to carry food (sometimes with no barrier, many hot fast food follows this line) has to have inherent possible health risks.
BUT felling trees to have good old plain cardboard, oooh no we can't allow that! The 'green' agenda could be making us ill in more ways than one.
The FSA is jumping about saying don't worry. I'm old enough to remember asbestos not a worry. I worked in the Printing Industry when they said Benzine (for cleaning matrices) was not a problem - it used to stand on a shelf in a corked medicine bottle - how appropriate!)
Always the last to move are the companies involved with selling a product, yet Kellogs are investigating already, Jordans have stopped using recycled immediately and going for plain straight from trees card.
That should tell you something. They are 'realising' this is not slight increase in mineral oil in the body, it is 10 times above the legal amount, and more. Plastic bags as barriers are proven not to work. Aluminium foil would be a barrier... but added expense and possible aluminium poisoning. Ok, it's all long term exposure - but should we be risking it for an environmental lobby of nutcases?
Mineral oil is the largest contaminant in our bodies at about a gramme or more. Do you want to add to it?
Friend bought a reduced baco butty slice, hot and oily soaked into the no barrier protected (recycled?) card box from supermarket the other evening.
Recycled paper and card is and always was a money-making con. If I can I never use it (and I'm a publisher). Why? It's inferior stock and incredibly usually dearer (although you're brainwashed into thinking it's cheaper).
The 'green' brigade is everywhere, and in printing they are more fanatical than the warmists! Trade print magazines usually have the word 'green' and 'recycled' on every single page of their glossy mags - they are obsessed! Every organisation from the local council upwards has everything including their propaganda printed on recycled so they can include the dozy recycled logo. Yet I've know printers who add the logo, and if the recycled stock is more expensive they'll print in on a cheaper standard non-recycled.
BUT felling trees to have good old plain cardboard, oooh no we can't allow that! The 'green' agenda could be making us ill in more ways than one.
The FSA is jumping about saying don't worry. I'm old enough to remember asbestos not a worry. I worked in the Printing Industry when they said Benzine (for cleaning matrices) was not a problem - it used to stand on a shelf in a corked medicine bottle - how appropriate!)
Always the last to move are the companies involved with selling a product, yet Kellogs are investigating already, Jordans have stopped using recycled immediately and going for plain straight from trees card.
That should tell you something. They are 'realising' this is not slight increase in mineral oil in the body, it is 10 times above the legal amount, and more. Plastic bags as barriers are proven not to work. Aluminium foil would be a barrier... but added expense and possible aluminium poisoning. Ok, it's all long term exposure - but should we be risking it for an environmental lobby of nutcases?
Mineral oil is the largest contaminant in our bodies at about a gramme or more. Do you want to add to it?
Friend bought a reduced baco butty slice, hot and oily soaked into the no barrier protected (recycled?) card box from supermarket the other evening.
Recycled paper and card is and always was a money-making con. If I can I never use it (and I'm a publisher). Why? It's inferior stock and incredibly usually dearer (although you're brainwashed into thinking it's cheaper).
The 'green' brigade is everywhere, and in printing they are more fanatical than the warmists! Trade print magazines usually have the word 'green' and 'recycled' on every single page of their glossy mags - they are obsessed! Every organisation from the local council upwards has everything including their propaganda printed on recycled so they can include the dozy recycled logo. Yet I've know printers who add the logo, and if the recycled stock is more expensive they'll print in on a cheaper standard non-recycled.
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