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People Who Drink Bottled Water Daily Get 90k More Microplastic Particles a Year
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jayknight
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>She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.
So a 3-4x increase.
integralid
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Is this specific to water bottles? What about people who drink cola from plastic bottles daily?
tim-tday
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It’s the plastic bottle. Anything packaged in a plastic bottle will have the same effect. Although the acidity of the soda will probably increase the plastic shedding.
warmedcookie
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What about reusable plastic bottles? (Ex. Nalgene) I imagine they wouldn't be as bad since the water would only sit in the bottle for a day tops, limiting plastic shedding.
Then again, maybe they shed more overtime? I have a 15 year old Nalgene bottle that I still use. Would be nice to know how hard plastics vs. soft plastics differ in their plastic leeching.
metalman
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there are adults alive now who not only have never eaten or drunk anything that was not packaged/contained in plastic, they are also afraid of unpackaged food
certain "grey" zone tracking and fingerprinting methods could easily verify exactly who these people are
what to say grey zone, I switched most of my personal consumption to cash purchases after my bank made a default feature tracking my spending, that sent me an alert when I bought too much food.