When you drink bottled water, you're drinking lots and lots of plastic particles
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bottled-water-plastic-1.7079302
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bottled-water-plastic-1.7079302
From what's been reported in recent times, drinking any source of water comes with lots of plastic particles. As well as eating any food.
3 different brand in the US.
Given US's standing in terms of holding corporations accountable and their poor standards and lower regulations around the sourcing I'm going to assume this isn't the case for the rest of the world.
They were the only 3 they looked at. It's not about them being sub par quality, they measured for smaller nano plastics than have been tested before. I would assume all plastic containers do this, with a rate of speed relative to the medium contained within. All drinks with plastic, maybe the carbonated drinks move the plastic particles faster, even. How much of the food we consume is wrapped in plastic, and doing this.
They don’t even specify the brands and yet you’re more than happy to spin this into “America bad”. Lol. For all we know it could be Fiji or Evian brand, both of which are imported to the United States.
The headline is like a doomsayer when in reality it is just US based so not relevant to the rest of the world. Even if it is it is a tiny amount of data to extrapolate out to the entire world.
Maybe the America bad narrative you're bitching about is a result of rampant deregulation and industry lobbying eroding America for the last century or so.
I’m fine with anyone pointing out the myriad problems with the United States, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re baselessly speculating that this problem only exists in the United States with nothing to back it up other than your preconceptions.
study finds most of the plastic comes from bottle itself, filtration
Does the rest of the world use other types of bottles or filtration techniques? Doubtful. You should at least accept the possibility that many plastics leech harmful chemicals.
I didn't dispute that it could be the case I said that it shouldn't be world news that three brands in the US have an issue. It might affect others but it's a big jump to international concern from three localised cases. If it were one case in three markets it'd be different.
And yes to speak to your comment, other countries do have different systems and regulations.
Plastic bottles are magically better elsewhere in the world and do not shed any microplastics or leech into water.
Yeah right mate, it’s the same shit world.
That's not what I'm saying you delicate little flower, the study is very localised to one set up production regulations. It is not a decent data set to extrapolate world wide.
There are different regulations in food safety across the world down to plastics ppm and micro plastics, types of plastics and a whole host of other things so until these investigations are more widespread I'm not going to give it much weight.
What does that have to do with bottled water?
It’s not even true, Nauru has the highest rate. The US is 11th (granted, after a bunch of micro-states in Polynesia). You may mean highest population