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Re:Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into ... by littlestymaar on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:42AM (#36533838)
> Also, Pyrex is still borosilicate in Europe, since soda-lime is hard to get there.

How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”? The main reason why it's still borosilicate here is because the brand has been licensed to a different company, and their management hasn't chose to stop selling borosilicate.

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Re:Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into ... by reaperducer on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:28PM (#36538865)
How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”?

I'm just going by what Wikipedia says:

"Since the closure of the soda–lime plant in England in 2007, European Pyrex has been made solely from borosilicate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex

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Re:Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into ... by adhesive_wombat on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:04PM (#36542255)
There are more glass factories in Europe than the one in Sunderland that Arc themselves closed down in 2007.

Something like 30 million plus of glass was made in the EU27 in 2007 in over 200 facilities, nearly all of it would be soda lime glass (i.e. "normal glass"). https://climate.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-11/bm_study-g...

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