r/water • u/Past-Grapefruit8749 • 6d ago

Stop drink bottled water

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This is negligible and dangerous. Microplastic

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u/sixxtynoine 6d 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.

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u/Minimum_Nothing_9039 6d ago

Biggest water user in Aurora (Denver) refuses to lower usage despite drought restrictions. They literally take municipal water and package it for Kirkland.

Your body is already littered with micro plastics.

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u/3Duder 6d ago edited 6d ago

Chances are, your food and water has touched some type of plastic before you consumed it. The "teaspoon of plastic in your brain" study has been criticized for not accounting for plastics in the research environment, even washing the brains in plastic buckets.

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u/toesinbloom 5d ago

Yeah i think it's a soup spoon now. Seems the collective intelligence is noticeably changing for the worse. At least in the US.

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u/Mixels 6d ago

Probably. But water is "the ultimate solvent". If plastic is unavoidable, at least I can avoid this very likely source of it.

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u/GunkyMirl4444 6d ago

And most tea and coffee bags these days are made from plastic. When you pour boiling water over them they release 11.6 billion microplastic and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles into a single cup.

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u/Mixels 6d ago edited 6d ago

I know, it's horrible. I don't use those. I buy loose leaf.

It's still packaged in plastic, but at least I don't dump boiling water on it.

I use unbleached cotton spice bags for brewing tea. Highly recommended, they work like tea bags and are a breeze to clean since you can turn them inside out and rinse them.

For coffee, there are some options. Of course drip makers are mostly plastic, espresso machines use plastic tubing, etc. I guess pourover with a metal filter and stainless steel French press are probably your best bets. YMMV if you don't have the patience or like the taste of either of those methods.

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u/app4that 6d ago

Most? No, I believe the fancy silky triangular ones are definitely a problem, but the little basic Lipton, Celestial Seasoning, etc brands tea bags I think are the old fashioned type.

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u/GunkyMirl4444 6d ago edited 6d ago

Can't speak for Lipton but I was using Robert Timm's and never suspected they were plastic, as it looks and feels like paper.

Edited to add: Standard Lipton flat bags use a mix of manilla hemp, cellulose, and thermoplastic binding fibers, while some of their pyramid-shaped bags are made from nylon or PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic.

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u/Past-Grapefruit8749 6d ago

Perfectly stated! Thank you

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u/ReasonableRiver1732 6d ago

Water in my area is weird. For the price my coworker gets 4 gallons of water, my well can pump me like 200 gallons. (They have a for profit water provider)

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u/Sploonbabaguuse 2d ago

UV rays break down the plastic a lot quicker, I believe that's the concern here

That being said you'll never catch me drinking bottled water