For my family's safety, we've switched to glass food-storage containers

BAD NEWS: The June 2020 issue of Consumer Reports magazine warns readers they may be consuming as much as a credit card's worth of plastic a week.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- We're trying to eliminate the use of plastic in our kitchen -- from food-storage containers to our coffee maker to utensils and cups we'd use when cooking on our barbecue and eating on the deck.

Besides buying glass containers to replace our many plastic food-storage containers, I stopped using our cheap, mostly plastic Mr. Coffee coffee maker and started brewing coffee in a stainless steel Farberware Superfast percolator my mother used in the 1980s and 1990s.

Read my full report on the dangers of microplastic in our food and water, and what you can do to lessen the health risks:

The more we learn about plastic and food

the more we realize the health risks we face