How NOT To Be Green: Hurt Yourself, Your family, and the Environment with Liquid Infant Formulas

If you’ve read my eBook First Bites, you’ve learned a lot about formula feeding. While breastfeeding is always recommended, it’s advised to use powdered formula if you absolutely need to use formula.

The alternatives, concentrated liquid formula that needs mixed with water and ready-to-use liquid formula, aren’t green – and their packaging adds unwanted chemicals to your child’s sole source of food.

For one, plastic containers leach contaminants into liquid formula – that’s just what plastic containers do.

If liquid infant formula is packaged in metal can instead of a plastic bottle, the formula comes into direct contact with the bisphenol A that is used to line metal cans.

Of course, once the liquid formula is consumed, the packaging – whether plastic or metal – needs disposed. And that is where the potential environmental harm enters the picture. (Please don’t forget to recycle.)

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Hilary Kimes Bernstein

Hilary Kimes Bernstein is a Christ follower, wife, mama, and journalist. She writes about making healthy decisions that honor God and happen to help the environment at Accidentally Green. Short and sweet - like her writing - Hilary is the author of several healthy living eBooks.

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