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    Top bottled waters are ‘contaminated with plastic’

    Top bottled waters are 'contaminated with plastic' - RTHK
    The world's leading brands of bottled water are contaminated with tiny plastic particles that are likely seeping in during the packaging process
    Plastic was identified in 93 percent of the samples, which included major name brands such as Aqua, Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life and San Pellegrino.
    Particle concentration ranged from "zero to more than 10,000 likely plastic particles in a single bottle," said the report.
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    in the BBC article essentially it reports there is no standard or agreed method to measure plastic content in the product, presumably all plastic drink bottles have plastic content, and manufacturers don't care to know or care how much we consume.!


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    so the solution being? use more glass? even the multi-use bottles are likely to be plastic.


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    Quote Originally Posted by UK/HKboy:
    so the solution being? use more glass? even the multi-use bottles are likely to be plastic.
    Instal public filtered drinking fountains or bottle refilling stations, or bottle tap water from home, just stop buying 'bottled' water!

    Bottled water in 1st world countries should be outlawed.
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    Is this really news ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by JAherbert:
    in the BBC article essentially it reports there is no standard or agreed method to measure plastic content in the product, presumably all plastic drink bottles have plastic content, and manufacturers don't care to know or care how much we consume.!
    Neither do governments nor medical profession because there is no evidence that ingestion of plastics is harmful....yet.

    https://plastictides.wordpress.com/2...tic-ingestion/

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    Quote Originally Posted by HowardCoombs:
    Neither do governments nor medical profession because there is no evidence that ingestion of plastics is harmful....yet.
    It's one of those problems that are not a problem. That's a problem to some.

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    From the article :

    "Tap water, by and large, is much safer than bottled water," said Mason.
    Unless you live in one of those apartment complex that had problem with heavy metal contamination a few years back.

    At some point I just started to tune out these news because everything around us will either kill us or give us cancer. What's the point of living if we're constantly paranoid about everything?

    Ignorance is bliss.


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    One of the first things any modern, civilised community does is build infrastructure to deliver practically free, safe, and low environmental impact drinking water to its citizens.

    And then thanks to corporate advertising dollars and 'first world problems', people became convinced that they should bypass this massive, well monitored and frequently tested infrastructure, to buy plastic bottles delivered to retail locations on large diesel burning trucks. Sometimes shipped from other continents. For a retail price that is on par with petrol.

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    Its the illusion (and sometimes reality) of better and safer unfortunately.

    People pay more for what they think its natural water e.g. Evian. When people found out Dasani water was from a tap, they had to discontinue that brand.

    I remember on a hike and there was a stream with crystal clear water. I poured some in my bottle and the taste was much better than bottled water, but who knows what kind of crap it has flowed through?

    Its about trust. Some people trust Watsons to give them safer water than the infrastructure their government implemented.


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