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I was curious if the micro-plastics could be coming from the bottles they are packaged in. The article says... It's not clear how the plastic is getting into t
by 40four 7y ago
I was curious if the micro-plastics could be coming from the bottles they are packaged in. The article says...
It's not clear how the plastic is getting into the bottled water — whether it's the water source itself or the air or the manufacturing and bottling process.
"Even the simple act of opening the cap could cause plastic to be chipping off the cap," Mason said.
I think it's easy to assume it's from the water source, & or a low quality filtration process, but it could very well be from the same bottle you are holding.
I suspect it's a combination of both. Is it possible some of the brands with higher counts use a lower quality plastic for the bottle & cap? This also makes sense to me since San Pellegrino has the lowest profile, and often comes in glass.
- notadoc 7y agoMy suspicion would be that at least some of the plastic particles are coming from the bottles themselves. Plastic degrades over time, so this would not be too surprising.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoWhile less common, San Pellegrino does come in a plastic bottle. I’m curious why they didn’t include the packaging in the graphic of the brand breakdown linked elsewhere, seems like this is a super relevant variable.
- zepearl 7y agoJust fyi in Switzerland I see the two main supermarkets (Migros & Coop) selling it only in plastic bottles.
- ryanmercer 7y agoProbably all of the above. We know microplastics are in the air, we know they are in aquifers, we know any plastic material municipal water is going through could result in micro plastic contamination just from wear, potentially from the filters they are running the water through before bottling and any plastic fittings or piping on that fill the bottles. It's wholly plausible it's a contamination of any/all of them in any given sample.
- 40four 7y agoIt's crazy that micro-plastics are even in the air. Gross!
- zepearl 7y ago> This also makes sense to me since San Pellegrino has the lowest profile, and often comes in glass. No mention of which variant(s) (glass, plastic, both?) were tested, right? (or I haven't been able to find the statement)
- 40four 7y agoI didn't notice any mention. Just a guess though, I've seen S. Pellegrino in plastic so it's possible theirs were.
- zepearl 7y agoIf this https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic/ https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic/ is the website that posted the results (weird site - what's with all those huge/fancy animations?): I keep seeing small plastic bottles (in the animations) => does San Pellegrino sell it (as well) in small glass bottles? (or are the small ones only plastic/PET)?
- armitron 7y agoIt comes in glass for both small and big bottles.
- landcoctos 7y ago> I was curious if the micro-plastics could be coming from the bottles they are packaged in. The article says... I assumed that they were talking about from the bottle itself.
- baxtr 7y agoMakes me wonder how much plastic kids eat when they eat with plastic spoons
- tictok4 7y agoeverything for kids is plastic. it's sad.
- franciscop 7y agoSomeone could test this: - Measure bottle water microplastic contents. - Measure tap water microplastic contents. - Put tap water in bottles and graph amount of microplastics vs days. If you want to measure e.g. 10 days, fill and leave 10 * N bottles resting, then open and measure N bottles everyday. - If it can be demonstrated that the plastics come from the bottle, repeat with other batches where every day the bottles are shaken vs still, or under the sun vs shadow, etc. to see what affects them the most.