Posted on 03/15/2018 9:33:14 AM PDT by Signalman
You’ve been told to drink more water more times than you can count. Heck, more than half of Americans drink bottled water and one-third of us suck it down on a regular basis, as the Chicago Tribune noted. Chugging water has become the staple of the trying-to-be-healthy lifestyle.
But you might want to rethink the plastic bottle you’ve been lugging around wherever you go. As the BBC reports, an alarming new study has shown that many bottles of water, which the $4 billion industry has marketed to us as clean and pure, may actually be chock full of microplastics. So just how safe is that bottled water?
In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different countries were examined, the Telegraph notes. Researchers found nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. There were typically 10 plastic particles per liter of bottled water, and each particle was larger than the width of a human hair. Yuck.
Led by the non-profit journalism organization Orb Media and conducted at the State University of New York in Fredonia, the study tested brands such as Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life and San Pellegrino.
Sherri Mason, a professor of chemistry at the university, ran the analysis. As she told BBC News: “We found [plastic] in bottle after bottle and brand after brand.”
“It’s not about pointing fingers at particular brands,” she says. “It’s really showing that this is everywhere, that plastic has become such a pervasive material in our society, and it’s pervading water — all of these products that we consume at a very basic level.”
It should be noted that there is no hard evidence that consuming very small pieces of microplastic is harmful to your health but it remains an issue of concern.
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Just part of a “high-fiber” diet!
Seriously though....Yuck!
I blame globull warming.
Now with extra polymers — for extra flavor!
Worst issue with plastic containers f9r soda is taste
The slick plastic bottles have an impact on taste especiallly in heat
Rough plastic and aluminum not so much and glass has the least impact of anything on taste
My opinion
If you’re sixty you remember when it was glass or steel only
Tap water - full of estrogen and anti-depressants?
Then that will probably include the sodas we drink as well that come in plastic bottles.
Soooooooooo, “SMART WATER” is not so smart?
How about milk, juice, soda, baby formula...and fruit water!
I refill my plastic bottle at the water vending machines. I don’t drink bottled water that has been sitting in a warehouse for who knows how long.
Berkey water filters
Alexa pure water filters
I presume the article is not finding issue with bisphenol-a (BPA) free bottles.
It’s a jungle out there
Disorder and confusion everywhere
No one seems to care
Well, I do
Hey! Who’s in charge here?
It’s a jungle out there
Poison in the very air we breathe
You know what’s in the water that you drink?
Well I do, and it’s amazing
People think I’m crazy, ‘cause I worry all the time
If you paid attention, you’d be worried too
You better pay attention
Or this world you love so much might just kill you
I could be wrong now, but I don’t think so!
‘Cause it’s a jungle out there
It’s a jungle out there!
I much prefer the imported plastic particles to the domestics......much better flavor....................
I am going back to fresh mothers milk only.
(Even if it is gonna take a while to get the pump primed ...)
One of my favorite shows.
Filter better.
Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising soul to market a screw-on bottled-water charcoal filter.
Oh, I love Monk. I’d forgotten the theme song!
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