Posted on 09/06/2017 6:15:56 PM PDT by Ennis85
Microscopic pieces of plastic have infiltrated tap water systems around the world, according to new research on worldwide water systems.
According to Orb Media, a non-profit data journalism newsroom in Washington, 83 percent of the tap water sampled globally was contained with microscopic plastic particles.
The U.S. had the highest contamination rate at 94 percent, and water sampled from Europe to India and in parts of the Middle East had plastic contamination above 70 percent, according to the Orb study.
Sites sampled in the U.S. included “Congress buildings, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and Trump Towers,” the Guardian reported.
Most research to this point has concentrated on massive plastic garbage patches in the world’s oceans, and the impact of tiny pieces of plastic from those huge patches on marine life, which people then eat. But the impact of drinking microplastic particles on humans is still unknown.
“We have enough data from looking at wildlife, and the impacts that it’s having on wildlife, to be concerned,” Dr Sherri Mason, a microplastic expert at the State University of New York in Fredonia, and a supervisor on the study for Orb, told the Guardian.
“If it’s impacting [wildlife], then how do we think that it’s not going to somehow impact us?”
Researchers don’t know exactly how the tiny pieces of plastic are entering the water tables that cities use for tap water, but tons of plastic fibers from clothes discharged in wastewater, mishandled plastic waste, synthetic fibers in the atmosphere, tire dust washed into storm drains and streams are a few of the possible ways such large-scale contamination could be occurring.
According to a 2013 report, 300 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide every year, and millions of tons end up in the oceans and landfills.
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Boo freakin hoi. If tap water sucks, drink bottled water. Oh wait, they are in plastic bottles.
>>Researchers don’t know exactly how the tiny pieces of plastic are entering the water tables that cities use for tap water, but tons of plastic fibers from clothes discharged in wastewater, mishandled plastic waste, synthetic fibers in the atmosphere, tire dust washed into storm drains and streams are a few of the possible ways such large-scale contamination could be occurring.
Water comes to your tap through....PVC pipes.
Unless you are in Flint.
“... Sites sampled in the U.S. included “Congress buildings”, the EPA, and Trump Towers ...”
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Sounds like someone with an agenda engaged in selective sampling.
“Study: Most plastic products trigger estrogen effect”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/03/bpa-free-plastic-products-estrogen/1
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“Just How Harmful Are Bisphenol A Plastics?”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-how-harmful-are-bisphenol-a-plastics/
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“Is Anyone Safe From BPA”
http://www.bisphenol-a.org/whatsNew/20170727.html
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“Small Study Claims Trace Prenatal BPA Exposure Causes Depression In Boys”
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I have started to think that some of our tranny and homo society might be as a result of this.
OK, so you have got your choice of drinking a glass of water with microscopic sterilized fecal material or the same quantity of microscopic pieces of plastic... which would you choose?
“Sounds like someone with an agenda engaged in selective sampling.”
Typical eco target bs posing as news.
More accurate...."through plastic pipes". PVC isn't the only plastic used for water pipe fabrication. Though your basic point is "on target".
If plastic goes into a "sanitary landfill", it will NOT "re-enter the environment. Landfills are specifically designed and built to prevent groundwater from being exchanged with the waste zone.
Article is scare-mongering bullshit.
Thank god for rainwater and pure grain alcohol!
Scotch disolves it
Plastic is inert.
Even with BPA and other contaminants, once reduced to microscopic it’s likely unbound from those chemicals.
I don’t think the plastic itself is an issue.
However, I believe there is reason for concern about the accumulation of large deposits screwing up sea life and it’s production definitely has an impact.
If the UN actually wanted to be useful they would contract a dozen “sweeper” ships to patrol the worlds oceans to suck up the plastic vortex’s in areas around the world.
These vortex’s seem to have a magical ability to attract enormous numbers of plastic containers in one place. It’s like mother earth is telling us “sweep here”.
Alas, nobody likes a good idea any more.
I just had a freaky Dr. Strangelove/Graduate mashup: One word, Mandrake- plastics.
General Ripper, are you trying to seduce me?
“I have started to think that some of our tranny and homo society might be as a result of this.”
It’s the new fluoridation.
It’s a Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
I just spoke to General Jack D. Ripper last night on this matter and he confirmed it, once again.
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