Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth recently told me, black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid.

In 2018, Turner published one of the earliest papers positing that black plastic products were likely regularly being made from recycled electronic waste. The clue was the plastic’s concerning levels of flame retardants. In some cases, the mix of chemicals matched the profile of those commonly found in computer and television housing, many of which are treated with flame retardants to prevent them from catching fire.

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    20 hours ago

    This is the way that Lemmy as a whole has filtered words implemented, just not every instance filters the same words (or at all in some cases?)

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      No, it is not how Lemmy as a whole has filtered words or it would be filtered everywhere.

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        18 hours ago

        It is the method by which it is filtered, but not the list by which it’s filtered