Nanoplastics In Water Bottles

[onewhippedpuppy]

Last week my wife sent me a picture of a store bought plastic water bottle with visible particles in the bottom, see pic below. She strained the water through a coffee filter and ended up with a number of small plastic “shards” that she had seen floating around in the bottle. Other bottles in the same pack from the same brand had the same issue so we obviously dumped them out. I did a little research, sounds like this is a relatively well known but not well publicized byproduct of plastic packaging and pretty common. So I’m going to be drinking a lot more water from a a refillable cup or bottle going forward.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/truth-about-nanoplastics-bottled-water

[cockerpunk]

thanks to the EPA, tap water is higher quality than most bottled water in terms of health/cleanness etc. FDA regulates bottled water, and has almost no regulations on them. EPA thankfully regulates tap water, and its standards are much higher.

[BK911]

Use a good charcoal filter.
Chlorine and fluoride are poison!!

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by BK911

fluoride are poison!!

not true.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by BK911

Use a good charcoal filter.
Chlorine and fluoride are poison!!

Yes they are, especially fluoride

Regular carbon filters work poorly for fluorine. Bone char carbon filter is what you want

I would expect plastic to go right through and be very poorly absorbed

[Arizona_928]

Have to switch to nano pure and add some salt back.

The thing about epa standards are okay. They’re very progressive with pfas but there’s only a couple labs in the country that tests for it. And it’s expensive.

Ps. That’s waaaaaay bigger than nanoplastic.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

not true.

You’re gonna lose this battle.

[JavaBrewer]

Out of convenience we have been buying water bottles for 20 years+ We are now transitioning to reusable non plastic containers. We are drinking less water since the change but are evolving.

[flatbutt]

I just installed a PoU RO filter.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Out of convenience we have been buying water bottles for 20 years+ We are now transitioning to reusable non plastic containers. We are drinking less water since the change but are evolving.

Not just for water, but even food.
Plastic will leach into the food.
Especially if you nuke it.

[Chocaholic]

Seems you’d just poop it out, no?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

Have to switch to nano pure and add some salt back.

The thing about epa standards are okay. They’re very progressive with pfas but there’s only a couple labs in the country that tests for it. And it’s expensive.

Ps. That’s waaaaaay bigger than nanoplastic.

Yeah I know but it spurred us to do some research. I don’t want to be drinking any of it! We’ve generally been transitioning all of our plastic food storage stuff to glass as well. Lots of bad stuff associated with plastics products mixing with our foods.

[cabmandone]

I figure if dogs can crap out half a plastic bottle they chewed up, I can pass along a few little pieces of plastic.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by Chocaholic

Seems you’d just poop it out, no?

Micro plastics are found in sperm. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/10/microplastics-found-in-every-human-semen-sample-tested-in-chinese-study

Nano….? We’re simply not funding the research.



It’s the same argument with methyl vs ethyl Hg. One is processed and the other isn’t.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Yeah I know but it spurred us to do some research. I don’t want to be drinking any of it! We’ve generally been transitioning all of our plastic food storage stuff to glass as well. Lots of bad stuff associated with plastics products mixing with our foods.

We've done the same, transitioning away from plastics to glass primarily. We occasionally get 1.5L bottles of Kombucha. We wash those, and then use them for water (we distill our tap water).

When we lived in Houston, we got a distiller and started distilling our drinking water. I run it through a "zerowater" pitcher first so I don't have to clean scale and crap out of it all of the time.

We've moved to the country and our well water isn't too bad. We had the basic test done to ensure that it didn't have the really bad stuff in it. We haven't gotten around to springing for the big test that tests for tons of stuff. It's moderately hard, but not super hard. We have a good particulate filter on the well water for the whole house. We still distill for drinking water. I like the flavor.

[Bill Douglas]

An article I read recently (Daily Mail UK) was talking about nanoplastics being the reason for unexplained cancers in heathy living young people.

[Tobra]

A lot more likely candidates

[VINMAN]

I've always said from the beginning that bottled water was rhe biggest scam.

I've always avoided it unless absolutely necessary.

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[kach22i]

I noticed something strange about the water bottle left in my car overnight - it did not freeze.

Search term: plastic water bottle not freezing


I've been bringing well water from home to drink at work (metal travel cup) for the last six months.

I seem to drink less water unless I'm making tea to keep warm.

[onewhippedpuppy]

At home we have filtered water in our fridge, but we frequently grab a water bottle when leaving the house. Except for my wife who always lugs around her big stupid Stanley cup. Guess I need my own equivalent.