People are drinking a lot of nanoplastic particles with bottled water

[wiyosaya]

But I won't be as cool looking without my water bottle. Amazing how many people used to die at the beach before bottled water.

That's their problem. There are water bottles to "look cool" with that are made from materials other than plastic, and they are just as "cool".

 

[NicktheWVAHick]

This is a really interesting Yahoo! article. Now I shall switch over to Techspot for some computer news….wait…what???

 

[WhiteLeaff]

Thanks for letting me know. I would never have known that if it were not for your post!

It's likely so, if you didn't catch the real content of my comment.

 

[RudyBob]

That's their problem. There are water bottles to "look cool" with that are made from materials other than plastic, and they are just as "cool".

Yea I have a Flintstone water bottle. Yabba Dabba Doo

 

[hahahanoobs]

Actually, seems they used the plastic bottles only, but didn't specified this clearly:
"A possible explanation is that some particles of this kind are newly released from the bottle package during transportation or storage, which are retained faithfully in the water sample."
but many was not introduced by package:
"Other polymers such as PA, PP, PS, and PVC, which are not the packaging material but also identified with significant numbers, are most likely introduced before or during water production."

There are numerous videos on it. Take your pick.

 

[BuckarooBonzaii]

Years ago there was reports/questions on the quality of bottled water in terms of it's pureness and where it comes from. Millions still drinking bottled water today.

 

[rmcrys]

Plastics and our whole "disposable culture" need to go. I don't know why people are so fond of cheap garbage. People use to buy something once and then take care of it. Now we have this race to the bottom where we expect everything to be disposable.

Cheap garbage is cheap and easy. Being ecological means more money, more care, more work. People don’t want that, they want easy and cheap. “Someone will fix it…”

 

[RudyBob]

There are numerous videos on it. Take your pick.

You pick one for us. It's not being a smart aleck. I want your view

 

[Bluescreendeath]

We just need to ban everything and live like cavemen again. Evidently that is the answer for everything.

Or we can use glass, metal, wax paper, and biodegradeable sugar-plastic substitutes for our drinking containers. The modern world was doing just fine for most of the 20th century without mass use of disposible plastics.

 

[DonquixoteIII]

Can't wait for living things to start using plastic as a replacement for carbon. Well, plastic IS carbon, but you get the drift....

 

[Underdog]

Plastics and our whole "disposable culture" need to go. I don't know why people are so fond of cheap garbage. People use to buy something once and then take care of it. Now we have this race to the bottom where we expect everything to be disposable.

We started going downhill when instead of making durable goods designed to last the manufacturers invited accountants into the design stage. Quality has been cut at every opportunity to reduce costs and increase profit. Then they brainwashed the public to accept cheapness as the ultimate goal.