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The plastic bottles used to transport bottled water became a serious problem worldwide. This is because these packages are made of polypropylene and can take up to 500 years to decompose. Recently, U.S. industry has launched some brands of water packaged in cardboard boxes. Despite the arguments of the manufacturers, who argue the environmental advantages [...]

Bisphenol A (BPA) is practically everywhere: in CDs, many food and soda containers, bottled water containers, baby bottles, as well as many plastics. It has become ubiquitous that most people have already taken its existence for granted. Harvard School of Public Health researchers have recently confirmed that ‘college kids who drank from polycarbonate [...]