Morgan
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Polypropylene Storage Container VOCS
I bought a typical translucent pp storage container well over two years ago whereupon some aluminum tubing lengths were stored. It was one of those
long flat ones where the lid can be lifted on either side and it has tiny wheels.
Anyway, looking for some tubing in the garage I opened it and it still has that distinctive strong smell of a new container. And the lid isn't all
that airtight fitting. I want to say how long is plastic supposed to off gas? I wouldn't want it in my house and don't understand how people put up
with the odor for so long. I was looking at buying more storage containers but no thanks.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233302796_Investiga...
https://greenhomeguide.com/askapro/question/i-use-plastic-co...
This is a typical container of which I speak.
https://www.zoro.com/zoro-select-storage-tote-polypropylene-...
https://www.plasticstoday.com/content/long-fiber-pp-compound...
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Morgan
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Someone with the same experience ...and some disgruntled comments from other unhappy customers in the link.
"I have a long history of storing non-food items in plastic tubs, and have many of these in my home. But in the past two years, there has occurred a
clear and obvious difference in the plastics used in the general storage tubs sold in the big box stores. They reek of an unpleasant odor, which does
not resolve even after airing them for as long as a year, or by storing cedar chips in the tubs for months, washing with vinegar then leaving them in
the sun, or any other method I have tried. Not only does fibrous content (clothing, books, papers) pick up this odor, but I assume that VOCs are at
the root of the problem which carry health risks to chronic exposure to the source. I have refused to purchase such odiferous tubs after noting the
problem with the first couple of tubs; however, I continue to have need to acquire more general item storage tubs and am hoping you can offer some
information on this issue and perhaps a source for safer tubs at a reasonable cost."
https://www.debralynndadd.com/q-a/looking-for-plastic-tubs-t...
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Herr Haber
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Ahhh... plasticizers...
I remember 2-3 years ago having a problem with some of my white shirts.
They REEKED of plastic when I put them on.
The problem was well hidden... After a few weeks of confusion and disbelief I realized where the smell came from.
I've had PVC pipes around me all my life so I could never have imagined that a PVC dildo forgotten in the closet could smell so disgusting.
(smell of plastic, I can hear ya'll!)
I've had a similar problem with bags meant to store clothes under vacuum. No one wanted to use those clothes...
The spirit of adventure was upon me. Having nitric acid and copper, I had only to learn what the words 'act upon' meant. - Ira Remsen
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My wife bought me a cheap shower curtain from China (yes, it was a periodic table) and it reeked of new vinyl to the point where I actually hurried
through the first few showers because the smell was so bad. They also spelled sulfur as "sulfer" which annoyed me for years until we got an updated
one, this time more expensive and printed on cloth.
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