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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>>More accurate....”through plastic pipes”. PVC isn’t the only plastic used for water pipe fabrication.
I’m the automation manager for a large municipal water utility. So, plastic, PVC, whatever is close enough for me.
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Gerolsteiner...glass or nothing.
Doubtful but probably a contributor to lower general testosterone levels in the general population.
Estrogen doses in the drinking water (from billions of overdoses of birth control regimes used monthly, and urinated into drinking water downstream)? Yes, I can see that link.
But “plastic” ... ? This is a research project in search of funding - from the government they are publicizing to!
Wait! We’ll use Mexico’s drinking water purity standards!
How can that be? The eco-fascists told us that it takes 50,000 years for plastic bottles to decompose. I guess the Neanderthals drank beer from plastic bottles while driving their SUVs.
How primitive.
Aberican municipalities use floculation to settle out particles of debree, not filtration. Plastic has a nearly similar mass to water so floculation works poorly on it very dirt.
If you are worried about it, put a whole house filter on with a 5 micron filter pack. I like the “big blue” system.
Hope that's true, but am not sure. BPA is an important consideration. For those who don't know about epigenetics, it's heritable chemical alteration of DNA that can have huge effects on gene expression and biology. BPA can cause hypomethylation of DNA (an epigenetic alteration), and have significant effects on gene expression in this manner. If microscopic plastic is found in the water table, I would like to know BPA levels as well. If elevated, I'm sure there's a way to eradicate this.
I hate to be repetitive;
But if you drink you’re gonna die!
and if you don’t drink you’re gonna die...
So why die thirsty ?!
With everything else in the American water supply no wonder half the country turned into fags.
WE’re doomed!
Good stuff. One of my staples. Have you tried Voss?
You may have a point about trannies and gays and other disease conditions. And don’t forget genetically modified crops.
Our city has somewhat filtered river water coming out of the taps. If you could see the river, you’d be unhappy too.
I buy BPA-free gallon jugs, fill them at grocery store down the street that has xlnt filtration system(s). I give this water to my kitten and drink it myself. Guess it’s time to cook in it too. Mostly, I steam veggies tho, think that’s the safest and easiest thing to do. .
Yeah. Expensive. It is really good.
You either buy a water filter, or you are a water filter.
Plastic water compliments that plastic stretch bun on your Subway sandwich.
Same. And soy.
Seriously, filters and reverse osmosis. The rich afford the latter.
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