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Further, they claim that the majority of plastic is from drinking water. Call that at least 2.6 grams per week. Say that someone drinks 3 liters of water a day.
by philipkglass 7y ago
Further, they claim that the majority of plastic is from drinking water. Call that at least 2.6 grams per week. Say that someone drinks 3 liters of water a day. There should be more than 120 mg in each liter of water. Cover a tall glass of tap water with a cloth and let it evaporate, and there should be a highly visible layer of plastic left at the bottom. Boil a pot of water to dryness, and there should be atrocious smoke from scorching the residual plastic.
Run a faucet with a filter system attached, and in minutes there should be multiple grams of plastic trapped in the filter. You'd expect clogging by plastic to be the lifetime-limiting factor of a faucet filter and of circulating filtered water fountains for pets.
In reality, I have never seen visible plastic residue in evaporation residue or trapped in household water filters.
- m463 7y agoMany people drink almost exclusively bottled water.
- arkades 7y agoBottled water is tap water. https://clark.com/deals-money-saving-advice/pepsi-aquafina-tap-water-best-bottled-waters/ https://clark.com/deals-money-saving-advice/pepsi-aquafina-t...
- the_gastropod 7y agoYes, but tap water isn’t bottled water. It’s been shown that plastic beverage containers leach plastic into their contents.
- remarkEon 7y agoWhere has this been shown? I have never seen this. Are you saying that there's plastic particulates that leach into the water, or some kind of residue?
- icelancer 7y agoThe person is referring to BPA. And the answer is... maybe. scientificamerican.com/article/plastic-not-fantastic-with-bisphenol-a/
- philipkglass 7y agoThat's easy to test too. Run the boiling-to-dryness test once with tap water and once with bottled water. Try the same with a Brita filter pitcher. I don't think that you will observe any more plastic in the bottled water than in the tap water.