Comment on A time-honored tradition

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you are still doing that, don’t do it. Those takeout containers leak microplastics like crazy

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  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t tupperware leak as well?

    I mean, unless you use some sort of glass container or metallic, you’re eating microplastics.

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    • jose1324@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Basically not / barely anything

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      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you have any source for this information? If they’re plastic containers, they probably leak aa well.

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    • Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve heard that they do, but for certain it must be less than re-using takeout containers.

      I, myself, I’ve been avoiding all plastics and using strictly glass where possible

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• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you call Tupperware? I thought any plastic container for food is that. Not necessarily newly bought.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tupperware is a brand. Calling all containers Tupperware is like calling all tissue paper Kleenex or all cotton swabs Q-Tips. Sure, many people do that, but it’s not correct.

    Also, Tupperware is expensive.

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    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kleenex is actually now the correct term according to the dictionary since it’s so commonly used.

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      • Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Same thing happened to Trampoline. Trampoline was the brand. The generic name is rebound tumbler.

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      • Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is quite common in some languages. In Dutch they call plaster plates gyproc, tilt windows velux, a stick of glue pritt and there are countless other examples where an item is named, if not officially at least commonly, called after a brand. And of course, also kleenex.

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s hilarious.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh. Even genericized, tupperware is still only containers that are intended to be reused

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahhh, genericized trademarks!

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or call acetylated salicylate an aspirin.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the Midwest, the fancy Tupperware is cool whip containers

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plastic food containers that are intended to be reused are tupperware; containers that are intended to be disposable are not

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, is this JoMiran or the micropladtics speaking?

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• BoxerDevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We use butter and cool whip bowls.

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where i from, some of us call it tupperware too, every plastic container is tupperware.

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