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Our hands and feet, especially, are in contact with plastics almost 24/7. Try to find even an hour a day where they are not touching or enveloped by plastics. Computer keyboards, Formica desks, nylon in socks, plastic shoes, pens and even mechanical pencils, it boggles the mind how far we have strayed from the simpler items we used historically. As a winemaker, I have moved to using smaller glass fermenters, but all the siphoning tubes are difficult to replace with natural materials. Trying.
Our hands and feet, especially, are in contact with plastics almost 24/7. Try to find even an hour a day where they are not touching or enveloped by plastics. Computer keyboards, Formica desks, nylon in socks, plastic shoes, pens and even mechanical pencils, it boggles the mind how far we have strayed from the simpler items we used historically. As a winemaker, I have moved to using smaller glass fermenters, but all the siphoning tubes are difficult to replace with natural materials. Trying.