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Was there some sort of scientific breakthrough that has allowed researchers to find these microplastics for the first time, or is it just that nobody had looked yet?
I was wondering the same thing. I saw an article yesterday about scientists just discovering that tea bags release billions of micro and nano particles.
Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was: > Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics. Worse... it's worse than tap water.
If you live e.g. in the Bay Area, your tap water instead has a good chance of having a good helping of hexavalent chromium[1], which... not too healthy. (Neither are arsenic, bromium, etc.)
Pick your poison. Literally.
[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tap-water-Bay-Area-datab...
Was there some sort of scientific breakthrough that has allowed researchers to find these microplastics for the first time, or is it just that nobody had looked yet?
Plastic found in water contained in a plastic bottle. Not really shocked.
>...plastic bottle I'm even confused by this point--given that some of the water (e.g. San Pellegrino) often comes in glass bottles, can we even assume all bottles measured were plastic? It seems like it should be obvious or else it would be a useless study, but I fail to find a single assertion that all bottled water tested were indeed plastic bottles. That and S. Pellegrino has such a low max count compared with ot…
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I used to think the same thing, But I've seen reports recently that these levels are in rain water and tap water as well. The particles are just in the water cycle now it seems. Looking forward to more information.
Is there any reports that show information for tap water?
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I was wondering the same thing. I saw an article yesterday about scientists just discovering that tea bags release billions of micro and nano particles.
the tea bags are a new plastic mesh kind, currently from a small handful of manufacturers.
Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was: > Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics. Worse... it's worse than tap water.
In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water. The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water. Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.
Dasani and Aquafina are both from the tap. Probably lots of others, but we never buy bottled water of any source.
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In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water. The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water. Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.
Is there a list? I know that in the US all tap water is (or should be) safe to drink. But anytime I travel, even to developed countries, I only use bottled water since I consider the water to be suspect unless I know differently.
Pittsburgh (in 2017) didn't even have enough people to run the necessary water audits.
Milwaukee's city health commissioner resigned in 2018 because they didn't warn about unsafe lead levels in the water.
In 2018, around half of the samples from Newark's water system showed lead levels above the EPA's threshold.
Large parts of Texas' water contain elevated amounts of radium[1]. Brady, TX, has water that's green, brown, orange[2] - it changes - and has 9 times the EPA limit of radium
California has a statewide sanitation problem.[3]
And that's just a starter set.
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drinking-water-radium-contamina... [2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am... [3] https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/water-and-drought/art...
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In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water. The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water. Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.
Is there a list? I know that in the US all tap water is (or should be) safe to drink. But anytime I travel, even to developed countries, I only use bottled water since I consider the water to be suspect unless I know differently.