TOP10 TIPS TO REDUCE YOUR EXPOSURE TO POTENTIAL CHEMICAL LEACHING

1. Avoid plastics with thenumbers 3, 6 and 7.
2. Don’t reuse water bottles with the number 1. Recycle after single use. Buy a reusable stainless-steel bottle (such as a SIGG bottle) to use where possible.
3. Go back to using good old-fashioned glass and ceramic containers to heat foods and drinks.
4. Don’t drink from Styrofoam cups.
5. Use a non-PVC clingwrap such as one made from polyethylene— it will be labelled microwave-safe. Make sure it doesn’t have contact with your food when heating.
6. Check your children’s plastic cups, drinking bottles, plates and bowls and throw away those with the recycle number 7 or with no identification.
7. For storing foods and drinks, use glass, ceramic or the safer plastics with numbers 2, 4 or 5.
8. If you have a baby, look for BPA-free bottles (MAM has one available in Australia) or use oldfashioned glass bottles. You’ll find them online at most green or eco-leaning baby sites.
9. Put only plastics clearly labelled “dishwasher safe” in the dishwasher (because of heat).
10. Buy your meat and fish from the butcher and fishmonger directly to avoid plastic packaging used by the supermarkets