Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
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#2Or not..
"believed to be microplastics"
"there is a chance the Nile Red dye is adhering to another unknown substance other than plastic."
So it may, or may not be microplastics that they found/counted.
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#3According to them:
Avoid Nestle Pure Life.
San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.
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#4Bottled water is a scam. It's less regulated than municipal tap water in most developed nations, companies suck up water from small towns and use tons of fuel to ship it out of those watersheds and then charge people 1000% markup.
For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies.
Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation. They prop up a terrible industry, generate tons of waste, use tons of oil and it's less clean than just drinking from a water fountain.
Edit: the documentary Tapped is a great film about the bottled water industry, and Blue Gold is a good one about the water industry in general.
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#5According to them: Avoid Nestle Pure Life. San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.
Wish I knew where Kirkland stood on this. I drink that stuff like... water.
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#6While there may be some questions regarding the exact methodologies used in this study and its accuracy, it is still pretty fucking scary to hear that microplastics are in so much of the water we drink and bottled companies are not filtering it out sufficiently.
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#7Bottled water is a scam. It's less regulated than municipal tap water in most developed nations, companies suck up water from small towns and use tons of fuel to ship it out of those watersheds and then charge people 1000% markup. For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies. Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation. They prop up…
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Re: Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
#8Or not.. "believed to be microplastics" "there is a chance the Nile Red dye is adhering to another unknown substance other than plastic." So it may, or may not be microplastics that they found/counted.
Not only that, but we have no idea what the "safe levels" are. They say it's only roughly double that of tap water, which doesn't seem alarming to me.
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#9Bottled water is a scam. It's less regulated than municipal tap water in most developed nations, companies suck up water from small towns and use tons of fuel to ship it out of those watersheds and then charge people 1000% markup. For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies. Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation. They prop up…
Go live in Flint, Michigan and report back. Thanks.
Re: Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
#10Bottled water is a scam. It's less regulated than municipal tap water in most developed nations, companies suck up water from small towns and use tons of fuel to ship it out of those watersheds and then charge people 1000% markup. For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies. Don't buy plastic disposable water bottles if you live in a developed nation. They prop up…
> For countries without clean water, the effort should be put into getting municipal water supplies.
And until the problem has been fixed, what exactly are they supposed to drink?