[Augie]

While some sources suggest using expired bottled water for plants, it is advisable to dilute it with fresh water if concerned about plastic particles leaching into the water.

All I could do is laugh at this statement.

The pink-haired, ring-in-the-nose AI bot that wrote it must be unaware that modern water mains are made of plastic. Most new homes are plumbed with PEX (also plastic). All of our garden hoses and irrigation supply/drip lines are plastic. Most food/beverage cans have a plastic lining on the inside.

I'm not shooting the messenger, just saying... lol

[Paul R.]

Well, some plastics DO leach a lot more than others, but, I have “no idea”, without doing some research, regarding plastic water bottles.

The alternative is of course metal pipes - which can leach quite a bit into water, depending on what else is already in the water, or not. Who’s low on iron??? ;-)

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

There are plastics and Plastics..... Think the plastic you can taste when you drink water from a plastic water bottle that has been sitting on a pallet in a warehouse in the summer and then outside Walmart in 90 degree heat leaching plastic off into that water you are drinking. Always better to have your SS 18/8 insulated water bottle!