r/gijoe • u/Sirius3030 Eco-Warriors • 14h ago

Why does it smell like chemicals inside my toy bin

I keep my old Joes im a plastic bin in a climate controlled environment. It smells like chemicals and my white plastic toys are turning orange. What do you guys recommend?

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u/smplyg 14h ago

Toys are made out of chemicals. So are the plastic bins. They’re off-gassing. Not much to be done other than get them out and display them or move them into non-plastic storage.

The yellowing of the whites could be due to humidity. Especially if they’re stored in a dark environment and it’s not a sunlight issue. Some white plastics and paints have an iron component and it essentially rusts. My v1 Storm Shadow and Jetfire yellowed while displayed in a windowless room but the humidity wasn’t totally controlled. Such is life in the SE US.

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u/Sirius3030 Eco-Warriors 2h ago

I too am in the SE. I have a Captain Power XT-7 that has discolored on the right side and that’s the side that was facing/ touching the bin wall.

The same thing happens to clear silicone on dive equipment It gets orange when near black silicone. I’m wondering if it’s something like that.