Dont Microwave Plastic Containers

Do not microwave plastics, including styrofoam containers. Due to massive amount of tiny plastics being released.

Instead just throw the food over into a glass or ceramic container, prior to microwaving.

Microwaving the containers accelerated the process by an alarming magnitude: Within three minutes, some containers released as many as 4.22 million microplastics (particles smaller than 5 millimeters) and 2.11 billion nanoplastics (particles about 70 times smaller than the width of a human hair) per square centimeter of surface area. - ref

This also applies to styrofoam containers like noodle soups.

If 2.11 billion is not enough to raise the alarm. Note that its not 2.11 billion per container, its per square centimeter of container.

Let's take an example. A ballpark estimate of surface area of noodle soup container is 500 square cm (5cm-radius, 10cm-height). So with that ballpark figure of surface area, the calculation is 2.11 billion particles times 500sq-cm comes ou to be over 1000 billion nano particles. Over 1,000,000,000,000 particles from a single microwave session.

Makes you really think its worth it just to throw something into glass container.

Note restaurant take out boxes (cardboard boxes), often have a layer of wax or plastic to prevent leakage. Hence, those also should not be microwaved.