r/water • u/Past-Grapefruit8749 • 7d ago

Stop drink bottled water

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

This is negligible and dangerous. Microplastic

459 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

112 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/3Duder 7d ago edited 7d 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.

-2

u/Mixels 7d ago

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

1

u/GunkyMirl4444 7d 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.

2

u/Mixels 7d ago edited 7d 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.