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This article/study seems like FUD that was written squarely by the plastics industry. I think the lesson here is to use better bottle caps.
by OutOfHere 1y ago
This article/study seems like FUD that was written squarely by the plastics industry. I think the lesson here is to use better bottle caps.
- esafak 1y agoANSES is the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety. It is a public administrative body reporting to the Ministries of Health, the Environment, Agriculture, and Labour. https://www.anses.fr/en/content/our-identity https://www.anses.fr/en/content/our-identity
- nerdponx 1y agoI can't speak specifically for this agency, but regulatory capture is very much a real thing.
- OutOfHere 1y agoAnd? The glass has nothing to do with it. It's all about the bottle caps which can be made of plutonium for all I know. It's misleading to suggest that it has anything to do with the glass.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoHowever, it is about bottle caps that are designed to go exclusively on glass bottles. I guess the headline could have read “Bottled drinks with caps that are designed to go on glass bottles ... ” That doesn’t seem like it would be misleading; it would also be less ambiguous than “bottle caps” which could suggest any cap to any bottle. (And it would be a rather obtuse way to phrase it.) Regardless, the headline seems to be literally accurate. Microplastics are indeed found in larger quantities in glass-bottled drinks than in plastic-bottled drinks. Those microplastics in glass-bottled drinks come from the paint on the designed-for-glass-bottles bottle cap.
- nothrowaways 1y agoExactly. Nothing to do with glass bottles.