Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

Science X ^ | June 20, 2025 | Rébecca Frasquet

[A Navy Vet]

Where’s the graphic of the, “Oh noes, we are all gonna die”?

[ClearCase_guy]

I say we totally revert to using these. It's the only way to be sure.

[George from New England]

So it’s coming from the food processing chain. Duh

[Ezekiel]

I say we totally revert to using these. It's the only way to be sure.

Amphorit. How about the rest of you?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Maybe from all the plastic tubing and fittings in the production process?

[Karliner]

Glad I use this camel bladder handed down for 500 years. Stuff tastes funny but safe.

[House Atreides]

OK… all you cap-licking ZEEPERS have been warned. ;-)

[posterchild]

Does it turn your milk into yoghurt?

[Scrambler Bob]

Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles

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OK

How about Vodka in plastic bottles. That has to be good, right?

[GingisK]

Any proof that those contaminates weren’t there all along?

[9YearLurker]

How much beer do we have in plastic bottles?

I think Guinness might have some.

[Dr. Sivana]

Glad I use this camel bladder handed down for 500 years. Stuff tastes funny but safe.

Well, yeah, but you are limited to old wine. You cannot put new wine in such an old bladder.

[CFW]

Goatskins (Botabags)?

Clay pots?

What can we drink from?

I know! Experts want us to stop drinking water altogether. Coupled with the alarm that human breathing adds to climate change, I’m beginning to think they may not have our best interests at heart

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[lastchance]

I think the more pertinent question is which source is more likely to lead to those microplastics being released into the environment and our bodies?

[lastchance]

I commented too soon (mea culpa) it is not the glass which contains the microplastics but the plastic cap. The lede is misleading.

“We then noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition—so therefore the same plastic—as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles,” she said.

[liberalh8ter]

Hahaha…I see what you did there.

[Celtic Conservative]

Amphorae change in our drinking containers too!

CC

[VanShuyten]

Key phrase in this article:

“… there is no reference level for a potentially toxic amount of microplastics…”

That’s like the “forever chemicals” that have been hysterically reported on. The reason they are very persistent is that they are very non-reactive, which is a little counterintuitive considering they contain fluorine. The biggest problem with them is that some of them are similar enough in shape to the nucleic acid base pairs to interfere with replication and translation of DNA/RNA.