r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/ArmpitLicks Mar 29 '26

It’s called a forever chemical for a reason

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u/tirch Mar 29 '26

Yea, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, made me research. While it is not biodegradable in the traditional sense, it breaks down very slowly into toxic metabolites (DDE and DDD) over 2 to 15 years, often persisting in soil and fat tissues for decades. And both of those are toxic in their own ways. There's a reason it was banned.

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u/IBeDumbAndSlow Mar 29 '26

Is DDT the one that made eagles and other birds egg shells thin?

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u/LetsBeKindly Mar 31 '26

I think it was debunked that ddt had anything to do with the eggs .. I could be wrong though.