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Those cheap plastic water bottles should be banned. They’re one of the greatest sources of micro plastics in our bodies. (Not to mention unstudied nano plastics

by guelo 2y ago

Those cheap plastic water bottles should be banned. They’re one of the greatest sources of micro plastics in our bodies. (Not to mention unstudied nano plastics)

lupusreal 2y ago
They can't be anywhere even close to synthetic textiles.
- debit-freak 2y ago
  Presumably you're not chewing on or eating from synthetic textiles. Meanwhile an enormous amount of food is shipped in, and even cooked in, plastic directly. Of course you're right in the sense that when it comes to our general environment textiles produce far more environmental microplastics than most other sources. Particularly in our water systems.
  - relaxing 2y ago
    …water systems that supply our drinking water.
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    I think synthetic fabrics shed very small particles into the air every time they are disturbed, eventually wearing out entirely. We breath a lot of that in. Clothes, furniture, sometimes even bed sheets; these all shed fibers into our living spaces.
- tradertef 2y ago
  Or car tires..
ghaff 2y ago
I don’t personally normally buy bottled water but the alternative is probably to go back to glass which means higher consumer prices, increased fossil fuel consumption for transportation, etc.
- hurpdurpdurp 2y ago
  Why not aluminum cans? There's still some plastic in there, but you can mostly recycle them, they must be fairly cheap, and they're quite light. As an added benefit they stack higher in transit with less extra packaging, at least if they're shipped like beer.
  - ghaff 2y ago
    I literally just saw those for the first time. As I understand it they’re still plastic lined and the energy efficiency depends on how much recycling takes place. It depends if eliminating plastics is what you really care about or not.
gruez 2y ago
>They’re one of the greatest sources of micro plastics in our bodies. Source?
- an_guy 2y ago
  Have you ever drank from one of those bottles?? It literally tastes like plastic.
  - gruez 2y ago
    Yeah, but I don't taste the plastic.
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    Even if it's true that those bottles shed plastic and you can taste that plastic, that's not a source for the claim that the bottles are one of the foremost sources of the microplastic in our bodies.

by guelo 2y ago

Those cheap plastic water bottles should be banned. They’re one of the greatest sources of micro plastics in our bodies. (Not to mention unstudied nano plastics)

lupusreal 2y ago

They can't be anywhere even close to synthetic textiles.

debit-freak 2y ago
Presumably you're not chewing on or eating from synthetic textiles. Meanwhile an enormous amount of food is shipped in, and even cooked in, plastic directly. Of course you're right in the sense that when it comes to our general environment textiles produce far more environmental microplastics than most other sources. Particularly in our water systems.
- relaxing 2y ago
  …water systems that supply our drinking water.
- lupusreal 2y ago
  I think synthetic fabrics shed very small particles into the air every time they are disturbed, eventually wearing out entirely. We breath a lot of that in. Clothes, furniture, sometimes even bed sheets; these all shed fibers into our living spaces.
tradertef 2y ago
Or car tires..

ghaff 2y ago

I don’t personally normally buy bottled water but the alternative is probably to go back to glass which means higher consumer prices, increased fossil fuel consumption for transportation, etc.

hurpdurpdurp 2y ago
Why not aluminum cans? There's still some plastic in there, but you can mostly recycle them, they must be fairly cheap, and they're quite light. As an added benefit they stack higher in transit with less extra packaging, at least if they're shipped like beer.
- ghaff 2y ago
  I literally just saw those for the first time. As I understand it they’re still plastic lined and the energy efficiency depends on how much recycling takes place. It depends if eliminating plastics is what you really care about or not.

gruez 2y ago

>They’re one of the greatest sources of micro plastics in our bodies. Source?

an_guy 2y ago
Have you ever drank from one of those bottles?? It literally tastes like plastic.
- gruez 2y ago
  Yeah, but I don't taste the plastic.
- lupusreal 2y ago
  Even if it's true that those bottles shed plastic and you can taste that plastic, that's not a source for the claim that the bottles are one of the foremost sources of the microplastic in our bodies.