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Tap water also has microplastics in it due to PVC pipes (could be even more toxic than PET/PETE particles even). The only way you can get water that has not tou
by nikolay 4y ago
Tap water also has microplastics in it due to PVC pipes (could be even more toxic than PET/PETE particles even). The only way you can get water that has not touched (much!) plastic is glass-bottled water (imported brands being cheaper than domestic ones!) or, let's say, the 2.5-gallon glass jugs from Mountain Valley Spring Water, which not available in most locations and is so expensive, and use a porcelain dispenser, which still has a plastic spigot, by the way! Reusable glass and steel bottles are still not envioronmentally friendly as they are not cleaned easily and without waste! Well, still, it has a lower footprint than recycling glass bottls after a single use, but at least you don't waste extra water to clean them and don't put all kinds of chemicals in the sewage water after cleaning! Last, but not least - surface water was recently proven to contain unsafe levels of forever chemicals, which, I'm not sure to what degree, should be less in spring water, but I'm not absolutely sure about that either.
- madelyn 4y agoDoesn't the underside of bottlecaps have a plastic liner? Plus, microplastics are a global phenomenon. Like, they're found on the bottom of the ocean.
- trident5000 4y agoMost likely realistic outcome is biology will be forced to adapt to plastic and its side effects rather than the genie goes back in the bottle.
- nikolay 4y agoYes, there's and most caps even have some lining - resin or pastic, I'm not sure, but there's a really small surface and most cases during transporation water won't touch it. Well, I'm idealizing things as the water from the spring most probably goes thru PVC pipes into the bottles anyway...