59) How chemicals leach out of plastics to impact our health with Life Without Plastic's Chantal Plamondon

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How can we use the analogy of pasta and pasta sauce to better understand plastics and their health impacts? Why is it that we urgently need more research and development to find alternatives to plastic, especially for food packaging?

Chantal Plamondon, Co-Founder and CEO of Life Without Plastic, a pioneering one-stop-shop for all things non-plastic, shares her wisdom with us.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[8:14] Chantal: "It started when I was just addressing my need, but I knew there were probably other parents who had the same need."

[9:55] Chantal on the health impacts of plastics.

[10:46] A few factors that increase the chances chemicals will leach from plastics.

[15:54] What keeps Chantal going, even when she experiences discouraging moments.

[17:31] Kaméa: "You do so many things for your business! How do you stay organized to get everything done?"

[21:09] Chantal discusses her book, Life Without Plastic.

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1:09.7	A lot of people think that plastic is inert,
1:12.9	or that if it leaches, it is in such small quantities
1:16.9	that it won't affect their health.
1:21.8	How can we use the analogy of pasta and pasta sauce
1:25.8	to better understand plastics and their health impacts.
1:30.0	Why is it that we urgently need more research and development to find alternatives to plastic,
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