utensils

These products can have chemicals added to them that you wouldn’t want in your cooking utensils—like flame retardants created from bromine.

And yet, it appears that the plastic they are made of is sometimes accidentally recycled into cooking utensils, and even toys.

Say goodbye to disposable plastic utensils and picnic while also respecting Mother Nature.

“There have been previous studies done in other countries where they’ve seen the same issue of black plastic being contaminated with flame retardants, as well as studies which show flame retardants can leach from kitchen utensils into food and into children’s saliva through the mouthing of toys,” Megan Liu, study co-author and science and policy manager at Toxic-Free Future, told CNN.

A new peer-reviewed study in Chemosphere has found that a variety of household products made with black plastics, including food serviceware and utensils, contain high levels of cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting chemicals.