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This article is helpful in the fact that it brings these hazards to everyone's attention. However, it is practically irrelevant and just causes worry because it does not tell us how to avoid these problems. If people read this now without knowing how to avoid it, then later on (when they discover how to avoid the danger of phthalates, BPA, and PBDE's) it will be useless. Then the majority of society (or those that have read this) will use their ignorance as bliss because if they have not been affected seriously by these conditions as of now, then they probably will not care. This is the wrong mentality because this is a serious issue. Information like this should not be released until a way to avoid the danger or counter-act it has been approved. Anyways, I suggest that you just use a tin or aluminum container to drink out of, or even better, a glass jar. These come in portable forms just like your trendy BPA bottles (by the way, don't drink pop. It's horrible for you too). All of these are safe alternatives and help, in atleast one way, of avoiding this "plastic age". By the way, use paper bags, recycle, eat well, exercise, and work hard. Ride a bike to work every now and then. I understand that everybody has different genes, but this obesity epidemic will kill the majority of the population before this plastic issue does. You do not have to be rail thin to be healthy, stop reading cosmo and crap like that. It's all subjective, take a stand for yourself. If it is not one thing killing us it's another, right? <3