Culture War - Recycled Cardboard Packaging Contaminates Food
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 11:01
in Earth & Climate
Recycling is good, we are told, though in actuality government recycling has been nothing except an expensive waste, with landfills for recycled materials as big as landfills for regular garbage.Now it turns out recycled packaging may be risking our health more directly. Harmful mineral oils from the printing inks used on cardboard can migrate into food if recycled cardboard is used for food packaging. It may contaminate food even if the recycled cardboard is used for the corrugated card transport box that holds individual packs. read more