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Yeah. Same shit with water. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2024/1/10/study-finds-hundreds-of-thousands-of-plastic-particles-in-bottled-water htt

Yeah. Same shit with water. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2024/1/10/study-finds-hundreds-of-thousands-of-plastic-particles-in-bottled-water https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2024/1/10/stu... Currently, I buy Pellegrino at Costco. But probably I just should get a sodastream with a glass bottle and filter my tap water. Shipping water from Italy. Fucking insane. Maybe I should open my own bottling company with glass bottles.

ssl-3 2y ago
I filter my tap water because the water where I live tastes like mud sometimes. (No, I'm not making that up. And yeah, they've been working on it.) I use an inexpensive carbon block filter that sits on my countertop and connects to the faucet with a little diverter valve. It works OK at reducing the taste issue here. But I'm in no way under the impression that doing so somehow reduces the water's exposure to plastics. The pipes in the house are plastic. The pipes under the street, if recent, are plastic. The filters themselves are plastic. I could get fancy and put in a nice reverse osmosis system, but that's just layers of differently-shaped plastic. For me, the solution is to simply not worry about the things I cannot change. (Although I guess I could go off the deep end and built a still... But sheesh.)
- Beijinger 2y ago
  The carbon filter should get rid of microplastics. What is your setup? Can you post Amazon links?
  - ssl-3 2y ago
    Eh? It's a carbon filter wrapped in plastic mesh, and the carbon part itself is a block that is bound together with plastics. :) But if you want one, it is an iSpring CKC1C. Sets up quick, takes generic/COTS replacement filters. (I used to use a Pur filter on the faucet and that also worked well, but it was filtering a lot of stuff that isn't an issue with my tap water, and the razor blade business model of vendor lock-in was more expensive to support than I preferred.)
bdcravens 2y ago
We do filter all of our water our coffee maker uses through a Zero Water Filter, which supposedly removes a significant amount.

ssl-3 2y ago

I filter my tap water because the water where I live tastes like mud sometimes. (No, I'm not making that up. And yeah, they've been working on it.) I use an inexpensive carbon block filter that sits on my countertop and connects to the faucet with a little diverter valve. It works OK at reducing the taste issue here. But I'm in no way under the impression that doing so somehow reduces the water's exposure to plastics. The pipes in the house are plastic. The pipes under the street, if recent, are plastic. The filters themselves are plastic. I could get fancy and put in a nice reverse osmosis system, but that's just layers of differently-shaped plastic. For me, the solution is to simply not worry about the things I cannot change. (Although I guess I could go off the deep end and built a still... But sheesh.)

Beijinger 2y ago
The carbon filter should get rid of microplastics. What is your setup? Can you post Amazon links?
- ssl-3 2y ago
  Eh? It's a carbon filter wrapped in plastic mesh, and the carbon part itself is a block that is bound together with plastics. :) But if you want one, it is an iSpring CKC1C. Sets up quick, takes generic/COTS replacement filters. (I used to use a Pur filter on the faucet and that also worked well, but it was filtering a lot of stuff that isn't an issue with my tap water, and the razor blade business model of vendor lock-in was more expensive to support than I preferred.)

bdcravens 2y ago

We do filter all of our water our coffee maker uses through a Zero Water Filter, which supposedly removes a significant amount.