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> "The bottled water is produced close to where it's sold." Well, not always. Premium brands are often shipped long distances. Evian, Fiji water, etc...
I've seen New York City municipal water sold in supermarkets on the west coast. The brand was something clever like NYC2O.
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The bottled water is produced close to where it's sold. The issue is in countries where the water bottling plant takes up lots of the available local water so the poorer citizens can't access it, and they can't afford the bottled water either. This means they don't have access to any clean water. One of Nestle's recent CEOs actually went on record to say say he didn't believe access to clean water should be a human r…
He didnt say that. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nestle-ceo-water-not-human...
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What's the control group though. Where do you find a good sample of people not exposed to them.
There is none. Microplastics are in absolutely everything now. They recently found plastic in falling snow.
Fun Fact: the "compostable" paper bowls offered by many fast casual restaurants like Chipotle contain this chemical, and will leech into the soil if you try to compost them.
"The Devil We Know" is a pretty unnerving documentary on this subject.
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That would be me and my family over the last decade. We buy bottled water hoping it would benefit our health over tap water.
The tap water in the vast majority of the US is superior to bottled water. There are exceptions, though, so if health is your concern, you might want to test both your tap and bottled water.
I'm surprised this myth gets repeated so often on HN. It's not true- the standards for purified bottled water are quite high[0].
[0]https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/bottled-water...
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>long term subtle effects The longer term, and subtler the effect is, the safer a substance is. My educated guess is that microplastics are going to cause a lot fewer human deaths and ingury than any of the following natural stuff: Bees, coffee (see acrylamide), peanuts, mosquitoes, arsenic, mushrooms, and bodies of water.
Humans aren't the only thing that will be directly affected though. Microplastics are effectively forever and are already in aquifers and falling from the sky like rain/snow. That means all life is going to become more and more exposed to microplastics as more and more breaks down. Sure, maybe it'll be not be so bad for a random human but what happens when this stuff starts getting into single cell and small organism…
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Plastic bottled water is not bought because it is higher quality. People buy it because it comes in a disposable container.
This isn't true in my experience. I've witnessed plenty of people in wealthy US suburbs that stock bottled water at home and even stock up on vacation. They claim it's for the taste and purity.
It's good to see the honest qualifications in the article: >Mason's team was able to identify specific plastics over 100 microns (0.10 mm) in size but not smaller particles. According to experts contacted by CBC News, there is a chance the Nile Red dye is adhering to another unknown substance other than plastic. >Mason leaves open that possibility but leans strongly to the smaller particles being plastic. >The develo…
For practical purpose does it matter? It detects non-water particles(pollution) in twice higher ratio than in tap water and plastic bottled water is sold as way purer than tap water with 1000 time higher price. Basically it's scam.
I wonder if all the articles talking about the prevalence of microplastics, are in actuality demonstrating the safety of microplastics. If it is in 93% of bottled water, and bottled water is used by millions of people (according to https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/should-we-brea... around 110 Million people in the US avoid drinking tap water), then there has been widespread exposure to microplastics. It…
Where's your control group? If life expectancy would have been a year higher, how exactly would you know?