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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 22, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Warren wrote:

> We've discussed refilling plastic water bottles in the past and  
> someone
> responded that the bottles develop carcinogenic chemicals after being
> re-used.
>
> Well, I continued re-using them figuring something would surely take  
> me
> before the plastic cancer did.
>
> Turns out it's not true http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

Thanks for that, Warren. We have emergency water in the basement in  
plastic and from time to time I've wondered if it is okay to keep it  
for long periods but never ran the truth to ground.

At the end of the snopes article is a sentence: "There are no dioxins  
in plastic." A friend had cautioned many years ago about me burning my  
trash when it contained plastic because she said that plastic emits  
dioxin when burned. I just googled it and did not find a definitive  
answer.

There sure are a lot of unsubstantiated sensationalist assertions out  
there. Everybody wants to be important and one of the apparent easy  
ways is to "help" a friend by warning them about something.