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    Quote Originally Posted by atraildreamer View Post
    Glad 1 quart size bags, color blue, 26 for $2 at Family Dollar.
    No, it's bad enough you may or may not be ingesting unknown chemicals from quality plastic bags. Dollar store bags are made from mystery plastic that could be coming from any where. I cannot believe you would want to increase your chance of harming your health by avoiding dish washing and then up that risk by using mystery plastic.

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    Two assumptions there; one, there are chemicals 'leaking' from the plastic bags and, two, the cheaper ("dollar store") bags and/or their plastic are different (leaking more/different chemicals). The first has been/is debated with no resolution in sight. The second is without basis (until shown otherwise) and probably not true, IMO. It's a common practice for discount brands and house brands (of 'all' kinds of products) to be made with near identical materials and processes as the major brands, very often by the same manufacturer. Of course in this case, the bags still carry the major manufacturer's brand, i.e., Glad.

    There's lots of things one can choose to avoid out there...most cookware, cosmetics, medications, red meat, fish, fowl, soy-based products, plastics of all kinds, combustion of all kinds, unfiltered water, bottled water, water bottles...maybe even certain soaps and detergents used to wash dishes. There's nothing wrong with those personal decisions. But in promulgating those decisions it's be best for our community if they were identified as opinion not yet supported by scientific literature.

    The debate must continue and we need to find well constructed, peer reviewed studies on the topic. So far, I don't recall seeing any that isolate chemical 'leaking' from baggies or that the potential leaking would be harmful to health. But, IMO, we must all keep looking.

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