I am throwing out my last surviving Teflon pan today because research I have read states that it just takes 2-5 minutes on the stove top for the chemical in it (PFOA) to leach. Plus the Environmental Working Group has an entire, not so positive, section devoted to Teflon so it was time for me to listen. The reason we didn't get rid of our pan earlier was because cast iron is just too heavy and we don't seem to know how to fry food in a stainless steel pan. Cooks we are not, I guess. My dilemma is that I don't want to recycle this product and I don't want to send it to the landfill. I'll have to think about this one!
Decide for yourself: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12885
http://www.ewg.org/reports/toxicteflon/es.php
Comments (1)
Why don't you want to recycle the Aluminum?
It saves a lot of energy.
I understand the dilemma.
The other alternative is to donate it to a charity (and exposes others) or a landfill (waste a renewable resource).
We had the same issue about a year and a half ago and recycling it as Metal Won out.
We hoped that the Smelter had scrubbers to deal with the toxic fumes.
We felt this was the best we could do.
Posted by Lane | March 31, 2007 8:27 PM
Posted on March 31, 2007 20:27