Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

If I die from PVC poisoning - you'll all be the first to know

It is actually such an overwhelmingly huge problem.....

Read this article if you really want to get depressed. http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-plastics.html

I don't know how we could get rid of plastic. It is everywhere and in almost everything.

I figure I will not use it in cooking if I can help it.... that is particularly contaminating..... and go forward bearing the facts in mind ..... buy wood or glass or whatever whenever I can afford it......but refuse to worry too much about it now. It has infiltrated our lifestyle so deeply that my contact is still so huge even if I do my very best to beat it.

On a more cheerful note : The way the world is going....... if we blow each other up it will not matter.

It IS a more cheerful note!!!!! Not much.... but definitely more.

Knowing that others are willing to risk there lives makes me feel much safer. Please keep me informed.

To be honest there is no smell or anything with the plastic 0.2mm liner that I am using. Fish are more likely to die / grow deformed in toxic water. In my tank algae grows, plants grow, fish grow fine - I consider it safe enough. I drive 50,000km a year, I reckon thats more dangerous than my plastic tank.

Swimming pools that I have assembled previously have a definite 'plasticy' smell, and these have been known to kill fish.