While grocery shopping, I happened across some new "eco friendly" disposable bowls. They look a lot like the styrofoam small bowls that you get in the paper products aisle, the kind you get for parties
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What I think funny is the plastic bowls (and plates) at Target that are proudly announced as being "melamine bowls".
Melamine is the chemical involved in that giant dog and cat food debacle last year and the ongoing Chinese baby formula/dairy products scandal. Actually, that's about all it's ever been in the news for.
I used to have a number of Melmac plates. I think I have one that still remains, the rest were victims of microwave abuse and eventually burned and shattered.
Melamine is something that I would gladly use in my concrete work if I could find a supplier that wasn't a direct import from China for freaking truckloads of the stuff. It's what's called a superplasticizer, and makes concrete mixtures pourable without adding moisture. Wonderful stuff.
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Melamine is the chemical involved in that giant dog and cat food debacle last year and the ongoing Chinese baby formula/dairy products scandal. Actually, that's about all it's ever been in the news for.
Melamine resin isn't microwave safe, anyways.
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Melamine is something that I would gladly use in my concrete work if I could find a supplier that wasn't a direct import from China for freaking truckloads of the stuff. It's what's called a superplasticizer, and makes concrete mixtures pourable without adding moisture. Wonderful stuff.
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