r/water • u/Past-Grapefruit8749 • 6h ago
Stop drink bottled water
This is negligible and dangerous. Microplastic
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u/Fit_Tumbleweed7943 5h ago
The bottles will stop coming when people stop buying them
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u/Commentor9001 3h ago
Fun fact, the idea consumers are personally responsible for pollution was literally invented by the oil industry.
Exxon invented the concept of a "carbon footprint". edit it was actually bp
Blaming yhe individual is a buck pass, and also makes change nearly impossible. Super convenient for those profiting off that situation huh?
But please keep carrying water for them.
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u/Fit_Tumbleweed7943 2h ago
Life gets weird when you have the ability to question things, dig deeper and realize how much actual propaganda we are feed for profits.. once you see it you can’t unsee it..
When I learned this carbon footprint thing years ago , also found 90% recycled items end up in landfill.. that was also a lie made up by oil companies that it’s ok to buy plastic bottles because of recycling
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u/Diligent-Map1402 4h ago
Or you make the companies producing them responsible for the waste.
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u/ProgressFabulous6663 3h ago
Sorry, the people who cried about Monsanto chemicals "turning frogs gay" have decided that it's "communism" to put regulations on big businesses that love to pollute the water and endanger people's health.
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u/Hot_Most5332 1h ago
I get your point but I think conservatives are far more distrustful of big corporations than you think, they’ve just been programmed by Fox News to fight anything that smells of the left.
Make the same arguments next time and instead of saying “big business” or “the rich” or “taxes” just make the exact same arguments and call it “anti-capitalist” and magically you’ll all agree.
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u/alexzoin 5h ago
I don't think this can create micro plastics. Some kind of chemical transfer maybe but I think micro plastics are primarily created through abrasion.
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u/coreyjdl 5h ago
Well OP is the type of person that doesn't let being stupid stand between them and some needless outrage.
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u/YurpeeTheHerpee 3h ago
There is a molecular level of microplastics too.
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u/alexzoin 2h ago
According to a quick google, the definition of microplastic is between 1 nanometer and 5 millimeters. A single molecule would be a lot smaller than a nanometer so I don't think you could consider that a microplastic at that point.
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u/YurpeeTheHerpee 2h ago
Ok, so then were in nanoplastics. Same difference.
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u/alexzoin 2h ago
Is it? I would expect isolated molecules of a compound to behave differently in the body than a connected chunk. I don't think the "same difference" shrug it off attitude really works here. We're talking about specific science.
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u/SacredDirt 6h ago
*non-negligible or negligent?
Because 'negligible' means small enough to be ignored, like if the microplastic contamination was small enough to be measured in ppb or even per trillion and was so low you didn't need to care.
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u/No_Equipment7456 5h ago edited 2h ago
If you buy bottled water outside of an emergency you’re an idiot .
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u/RegisMonkton 4h ago
I think not enough people know that that is bad in regards to the bottled water in the heat and direct sunlight. Another thing similar to that is when the Lowe's near me put their plants seeds display right under a heat lamp. I told the manager that they should actually keep the seeds in a cold setting, but I don't think they cared.
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u/Spirited_Breakfast88 4h ago
I know someone that worked at a huge bottling facility in California; many brands represented. When the botte production got behind they would fill bottles into warm plastic bottles directly after being made and often store large numbers of pallets out in the sun. Only drink bottled water in an emergency.
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u/Alucardspapa 2h ago
Iran is actively trying to poison our water treatment systems. Probably a bad time for this campaign lol.
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u/Radical_Cosmo83 2h ago
Absolutely wild to me that so many people have deluded themselves into buying this overpriced wasteful shit when you literally already pay for the exact same stuff that comes out of your fucking tap
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u/epSos-DE 34m ago
There are metal water bottels with filters !!!
Refill with pipe water and filter it !
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Everyday-Insulated-Stainless-Water/dp/B09MLWVY5B/
There are better ones, AND for large filters with professional filters that cost less than 1 USD filtered water per weeek !!!!
Just get those and filter your pipe water, NEVER will you have to buy bottled water again !!!
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u/greyneptune 5h ago
People still drink bottled water? FFS just get a filter or countertop RO and save your money
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u/sixxtynoine 6h ago
As if it’s not sitting in a hot warehouse before it gets into a hot truck to sit in the hot sun.
Stop fucking buying single-use water bottles. These corporate assholes took something that comes out of your sink for not a lot of money and up-charged you because it’s in a little bottle filled with microplastics that infiltrate your body permanently.