3 ms·
I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years.
by block_dagger 2y ago
I've been using a reverse osmosis water filter at home to reduce microplastics and other contaminants from my drinking and cooking water for the past few years. I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested.
[1] https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/best https://buyersguide.org/countertop-reverse-osmosis-system/t/...
- InMice 2y agoOf course, a reverse osmosis filter system made of...Plastic.
- aardvarkr 2y agoHonestly what else are you going to make it out of? Metal? What about rust? Horrible idea to make it out of metal.
- fooblaster 2y agoI don't want to be a downer, but given the pervasive amount of plastics in food, it seems essentially impossible to have a meaningful impact on overall plastic consumption for anyone who depends on a supermarket/restaurants for sustenance.
- block_dagger 2y agoI'm also vegan and buy mostly organic products and cook at home. I get your point, though. There's only so much we can do. The tofu I eat daily comes in plastic containers, unfortunately.
- spearman 2y agoOrganic food doesn't seem to fare any better in the report.
- Aurornis 2y ago> I am using the #1 recommended product on Buyer's Guide[1] for others who are interested. I’m reading their “review” but I don’t see anything other than common ChatGPT affiliate link blog spam. The “review” is just generic filler content about water filtration, not even about this product. These websites just collect products with profitable affiliate links, run the description of the product through an LLM to get it into a standard format, and then drive traffic to their list to collect affiliate revenue. This website hasn’t reviewed anything. They’re just tricking people into clicking links to buy expensive products that will give them affiliate ad revenue. Please don’t encourage the proliferation of these website by linking to them or endorsing their rankings.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI’m not familiar with this buyers guide site. Is it critical rankings by a human or some sort of automatic ranking / SEO spam?
- Aurornis 2y agoI tried reading their review. It was completely vacuous. This isn’t a real review site. It’s an SEO trap for affiliate revenue. I thought HN readers could spot these affiliate spam sites, but I guess not everyone is on to this scam.
- hedora 2y agoReverse osmosis leaches microplastics (because of the membrane): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a-quarter-million-invisible-microplastic-particles-in-a-liter-of-bottled-water https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a... I guess it’s possible to distill the water and add clean minerals back in. (Not sure if “clean minerals” are something that you can obtain though.)
- OutOfHere 2y agoAfter the RO layer should exist another activated charcoal layer. This should block most of the leaked polyamide from the RO layer. My filter is this way.
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoYou point to the membrane as a leakage source, but most RO systems also use flexible hosing in the assembly and from past work in medical devices it seems that flexible hosing is also a huge source of phthalate leakage. Is that something that is also taken into account in higher end RO systems?
- drivebyhooting 2y agoReverse osmosis completely removes heavy metals from water. I’ll take my chances with microplastic over lead.