Plastics here, plastics there, plastics everywhere
Posted by Ishia on 2009/09/24 in Science | 0 comments
- Image by van swearingen via Flickr
Are you sure you know what you eat and drink? Think for a while! Plastics is really everywhere – in cosmetic packaging, drinking bottles, food containers, children toys, credit cards, clothing, … It seems as we can not live without it anymore.
Plastics is organic material made synthetically or semi-synthetically. It is a polymer comprised from molecules of high molecular weight. It’s hard, soft, colored, clear and it can even smell nice (perfumed). Different chemicals enable such features and/or reduce the cost of production. Some of these chemicals are very dangerous. Therefore every plastic piece should be labeled. Are you interested in learning how to distinguish between different plastics? Read on.