1)Now, who here holds that one must unravel the entire roll of tin foil and toivel every centimeter of it before making a tin foil shtreimel for Purim?????
Are you kidding – Only if one plans to eat his hat!
2)So, I will continue to toivel my plastic. If someone comes along and starts toiveling cardboard THEN I might start to worry.
Itzik, you may have said that in jest, but honestly – what is the difference between toiveling plastic utensils made from recycled plastic and say, a cardboard box made from recycled paper pulp, that holds a cake? By the logic that has been used, if you do one, then you takeh SHOULD do the other. Does anyone know how paper is made – it comes from trees. But wait – WOOD does not require tevila, and neither does plastic, acording to the halachos of tevilas keilim that I just saw on-line, which gave an extensive and impressive list of what needs to be toiveled and whether or not a brocha is made.
These things are not harmless at all, as one might think. They are very dangerous practices of people who are changing the Torah’s requirements (thinking they are being extra-pious because of it), and altering the Torah is an aveira, not harmless at all. Kol hamosif, goraya. The danger is in the clearcut eventual disunity it cause among Jews. What’s next, those Jews who are doing this will start saying you can’t use a caterer who is not makpid to toivel his plastic cutlery?
If a godol hador who knows what he is talking about AND also knows exactly how these things are made and processed, comes out with a p’sak (not just an “eitzah”) that we MUST toivel our plastic ware, I will be first in line at the mikveh.