r/EverythingScience • u/Hashirama4AP • Mar 07 '25

Epidemiology Making a single change can cut your microplastics intake from 90,000 to 4,000 particles per year

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/making-single-change-cut-microplastics-190321429.html
1.6k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

195 comments sorted by

2.4k

u/timetq Mar 07 '25 edited 29d ago

In a new scientific paper, three physicians report that switching from bottled water to filtered tap water could cut your microplastic intake by about 90% — from 90,000 to 4,000 particles each year

Saved you a click

323

u/LoquaciousMendacious Mar 07 '25

What about unfiltered tap water?

275

u/delusiongenerator Mar 07 '25

The highly scientific text from the New York Post didn’t mention unfiltered tap water, but I’d guess that the danger there is more the risk of lead and mercury exposure rather than microplastics.

103

u/CoBudemeRobit Mar 07 '25

I wouldnt claim that store bought consumer filter will remove lead and mercury from your water lol

92

u/debacol Mar 07 '25

Pur absolutely removes lead. Brita does not. Source: I work with water scientists.

29

u/cloudytimes159 Mar 07 '25

Yup. ZeroWater filters are IAPMO certified to reduce lead, mercury, chromium, and the forever chemicals PFOA/PFOS

26

u/Altostratus Mar 07 '25

Do they filter any significant amount of microplastics?

26

u/cloudytimes159 Mar 07 '25

Microplastics are among the easier things for a filter to remove. So yes.

18

u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken 29d ago

I read from another study that since the filters themselves have plastic, they deposit some plastic into the filtered water.

11

u/Ok_Presentation4455 Mar 07 '25

What about fridge filters? Do they have the same protection or do we need to invest in these other contraptions?

5

u/debacol 29d ago

Have to check their certifications. Some probably do fine with most heavy metals and microplastics. Its the pathogens that are difficult to remove (if you have them in your water at all) and require RO systems.

2

u/[deleted] 29d ago

The best filter are the ones that are $500 dollars and you hook up under your sink. The best container filter would be zero water

2

u/debacol 29d ago

I know what a reverse osmosis system is. But you don't need those if you are trying to remove lead and mercury from your water. RO systems are designed to remove those things plus much smaller pathogens. If your water isn't swimming in Giardia, etc., and you are only worried about heavy metals then yes. A store bought consumer filter will do the job (SOME of them do. PUR PLUS does and I think Brita may finally have one that does as well).

2

u/[deleted] 29d ago

Check out zero water. It’s better. I had the pur ones

1

u/Dog_Baseball 29d ago edited 29d ago

Pur adds micropastics, or so im told.

What about Britta elite? It's like 4x expensive

26

u/delusiongenerator Mar 07 '25

Then don’t

22

u/Appletreedude Mar 07 '25

They did not

5

u/delusiongenerator Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Of course not, they would never. I’m affirming that it’s perfectly okay with me for them not to claim that.

-7

u/CoBudemeRobit Mar 07 '25

what about implying it by putting unfiltered tap and lead in the sentence?

10

u/delusiongenerator Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

What about reading my comment again? I never once mentioned store bought consumer water filters at all nor made any claims about them, did I? I was simply speculating about the risks of bottled water (microplastics) vs unfiltered tap water (heavy metals) Are you implying that there is no risk of heavy metals in tap water? Because there certainly is in many municipalities here in the US

Also, even though I did not make the claim, the US EPA has. Maybe try to go pick a fight with them instead. I’ve got better things to do. You’re free to believe or not believe whatever the hell you want.

1

u/pukesonyourshoes Mar 07 '25

Are heavy metals removed from bottled water?

0

u/CoBudemeRobit 28d ago

The fact that your argument is based on the assumption that all tap water has heavy metals as equally as all bottled  water has microplastics is faulty its its own right. 

Let me rephrase, are you really suggesting that ALL tap water in first world countries is tainted by heavy metals? 

Because that is what youre implying and blindly accusing me of being out of line. 

Im really starting to see a gigantic growth in false comparisons lately based on nothing but gut feelings and over extending rare occasions to be compared to full on epidemics.

3

u/chemicalrefugee Mar 07 '25

... and a whole lot more crap. The water is SoCal has been seriously unsafe to drink since I was tiny and I'm 61. When I was 7 my cousins house in San Jose was the first home I saw with bottled water.

1

u/katzeye007 Mar 07 '25

Bottled water doesn't mean it's any cleaner or safer tho

2

u/LoquaciousMendacious Mar 07 '25

Could be the case, I'm honestly not sure what the water infrastructure in my area looks like. Might be worth a little investigation now that it's come up though!

1

u/[deleted] 29d ago

And fluorid. It makes gay or gays straight and thus ruins relations 

7

u/TyRocken Mar 07 '25

Right back to 90k

1

u/soukaixiii 29d ago

You mean over 90 thousand!

4

u/SunflaresAteMyLunch Mar 07 '25

Or untapped filter water?

3

u/LoquaciousMendacious Mar 07 '25

Intriguing, I'll report back after boiling a bunch of filter cartridges and drinking the resulting concoction.

9

u/namkrav Mar 07 '25

My question as well!

1

u/BrushYourFeet Mar 07 '25

This is how I get most of my water.

1

u/bawng 29d ago

I didn't even know filtered tap water was a thing.

1

u/LoquaciousMendacious 29d ago

I guess in the sense of tap water - hard installed filter - you, or tap water - fridge filter - you, it does.

But not in the absolute strictest sense that filtered water comes out of the tap without any upgrades or procedures, unless you count the filters and processing that public infrastructure contains.

-7

u/MaapuSeeSore Mar 07 '25

Boil the water , there was another paper that mentioned , you can boil off some microplastic out of the water (just make sure the kettle is near a window so it it escapes out your kitchen).

9

u/DeusKyogre1286 Mar 07 '25

I thought the mechanism was that boiling creates a layer of calcium carbonate that traps some of the microplastics, rather than it somehow getting carried off with the steam.

1

u/banana_assassin Mar 07 '25

My kettle certainly needs descaling from said calcium carbonate on a semi regular basis. Let's hope my microplastics ended up in there.

-2

u/20cello Mar 07 '25

Unfiltered is statistically not good because the tap aerator is made of plastic 99% of times

59

u/MyFaceSaysItsSugar Mar 07 '25

It’s more convoluted than that. It’s a yahoo news release describing a review article written by 3 doctors. The evidence showing that switching to tap water helps comes from a 2019 article that shows that tap water cuts down on ingested microplastics. They estimate that annual consumption of bottled water contributes 90,000 microplastics a year while tap water only contributes 4000. However, that doesn’t actually mean you cut down to 4000 microplastics a year with tap water because we still inhale about 40,000 microplastics a year. So that may not be a clinically relevant reduction and people need to weigh the safety of their local tap water when choosing whether to consume bottled or tap. This issue is going to require changes in regulation to fix, just as leaded gasoline did. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517

18

u/1egg_4u Mar 07 '25

Welp I guess it makes sense that bottled water always tasted like plastic to me

Just cant shake that weird taste that you get from the bottle, even the reusable nalgene ones unfortunately

66

u/jackiebee66 Mar 07 '25

Except how is this affected now that SCOTUS said sewage in the water is ok?

25

u/Paesano2000 Mar 07 '25

More potential plastic breaking down microbes to eat those microplastics 👍 /s

4

u/Temporary_Body_5435 Mar 07 '25

What the fuck

4

u/jackiebee66 Mar 07 '25

Yeah that’s their latest ruling. You can tell they really care about the people.

1

u/Dame2Miami 29d ago

The fuck is the solution? We gotta make water with RODI filters and remineralize the water?

2

u/jackiebee66 29d ago

Well if they hadn’t fired all the scientists maybe we could get an answer to that question!

11

u/iKorewo Mar 07 '25

I wonder about refillable water jug

11

u/nickersb83 Mar 07 '25

Very different style of plastic I’d say? Not impervious to leeching into the water but less likely to at the rates of that flimsy thin plastic water bottle

1

u/ginsoul 29d ago

As I read somewhere they are more microplastic heavy as the cleaning routing roughens the surfsce by the time. This kesds to more particle contamination.

9

u/TheManInTheShack Mar 07 '25

Excellent. I rarely drink bottled water and I mostly drink water at home where I have an RO unit that is certainly filtering out microplastics.

6

u/Significant-Dog-8166 Mar 07 '25

My water filter pitcher is entirely plastic though.

3

u/MuscaMurum 29d ago

My thought as well. And what about the filter itself? So much plastic.

6

u/BloodSteyn Mar 07 '25

Cool... cool... but the filter vessel is made out of plastic, with water flowing through plastic tubing, into a plastic cup. 🤔

4

u/John_Tacos Mar 07 '25

What if you drink filtered tap water out of used water bottles?

4

u/f1n1te-jest Mar 07 '25

Okay but how are you filtering the tap water? In a plastic Brita?

And who survives on bottled water??

3

u/duckyreadsit Mar 07 '25

If you knocked cups over as easily as I do (and had a cat volunteer to knock it over, as a bonus) you, too, might consider bottled water to be an investment in increased safety for nearby electronics, if nothing else

1

u/CubedMeatAtrocity 29d ago

Most of the population of Mexico an Central America

1

u/f1n1te-jest 28d ago

That’s insane.

I’ve worked a few places where access to water was limited and we lived off bottled. The cost was super high.

I’m curious what the knockoff effects of poor water infrastructure cost per year on average

3

u/alrightbudgoodluck Mar 07 '25

You’re doing god’s work.

3

u/BlahBlahBlackCheap Mar 07 '25

Thanks. Get a Berkey gravity filter. Filter your tap water. System price: 360.00 come with one set filter elements)

Water filter life: 2500 gallons. Bottled water: 1.09 per gallon.

Replacement filter:100.00 Filter life: 2500 gallons. Bottled water: 1.09 per gallon.

Wallstreet would kill for that kind of return.

2

u/theecommandeth Mar 07 '25

… oh boy.. so my options are now sewage water filtered locally or bottled and sold to me… awesome

2

u/RamblinShambler Mar 07 '25

This might be a dumb question, but are you cutting down on microplastics at all if you are pouring the filtered tap water into a plastic bottle, then drinking it out of said bottle?

2

u/dckook10 Mar 07 '25

Honestly I'm more curious about Keurig cups

I drink coffee in an office with the Keurig plastic cups every day.

I don't think bottled water though but I fear the coffee cups.

2

u/biggetybiggetyboo Mar 07 '25

Thank you superhero that we deserve.

2

u/schmatt82 29d ago

Thank you im glad i have RO water and a remineralizer

2

u/[deleted] 29d ago

Hell yeah. I already do this. That’s good

1

u/Ethanol_Based_Life Mar 07 '25

No you didn't. Wtf is this formatting?

1

u/SplendidPunkinButter Mar 07 '25

What if I don’t drink bottled water?

1

u/RustyNK Mar 07 '25

Sweet, already there

1

u/luckyguy25841 Mar 07 '25

Filtered fridge water should be good then?

1

u/Boatster_McBoat Mar 07 '25

So if I'm already drinking filtered tapwater ... no single change for me?

1

u/manystripes Mar 07 '25

Does this just apply to the cheap disposable bottles of water, or is drinking filtered water out of a nalgene bottle going to be a problem as well?

1

u/xoLiLyPaDxo 29d ago

I was born premature without a fully developed immune system.  Pesticides and other chemicals in US tap water make my lymph nodes in my body swell up so bad I feel like Ralphie's little brother in the Christmas story when he couldn't put his arms down.  

When I was 12, my glands  swelled so bad they thought my appendix was about to burst because physicians mistook the swollen gland near my appendix protruding from my body as my appendix and had me sedated and marked for emergency surgery before luckily the surgeon noticed my armpits and other glands were also swollen as well. 

Most home reverse osmosis and filtering systems are not effective enough to filter out the chemicals that cause my glands to swell. My glands still swelled up even after my sister installed both a carbon filtration and RO system on her home.

 I also think the source of the water is likely important in addition to having an industrial/ commercial filtration system, which the average home user will not have access to. 

Most home filtration systems are not remotely capable of the same level of filtration as industrial use filtration systems are. 

1

u/Arthreas 29d ago

Also brew your water in black tea for further filtering.

1

u/lukaskywalker 29d ago

Dammit, I just moved somewhere where we need to drink bottled water.

1

u/VerilyShelly 29d ago

except I can't scroll the imported text box. what does it say??

2

u/timetq 29d ago

Fixed it (I think). Better?

2

u/VerilyShelly 29d ago

yes, thank you

1

u/kasheshoo 29d ago

Has anyone looked into tap water using pex piping vs copper?

1

u/Bearex13 29d ago

So I'm good I been drinking well water only for years aside from the 1 or 2 sodas a week if even that

1

u/cerulean__star 26d ago

Recently installed a water filter on my cold kitchen sink faucet and it's been wonderful

1

u/SneakyKain Mar 07 '25

Yay I already do that.

119

u/kernakyahai Mar 07 '25

what about the plumbing pipes being made out of plastic pvc pipes

tho we have a 3 stage filter for our drinking water sediment - carbon - uv

54

u/lordofcatan10 Mar 07 '25

Plastic plumbing is a significant source of microplastics. Reliable sources are pretty easy to come by, but here’s one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39884137/

11

u/kernakyahai Mar 07 '25

☠️💧💀⚰️

15

u/lindsfeinfriend Mar 07 '25

That was my question.

152

u/snuffdrgn808 Mar 07 '25

no one should drink bottled water anyway. total scam. buy your own reusable water bottle.

104

u/CoBudemeRobit Mar 07 '25

my fav fun fact is water companies don’t produce water, they produce plastic

2

u/-Django 29d ago

What do lumber companies produce 🤔 Lumberjacks?

2

u/CoBudemeRobit 28d ago

lumber, do you buy sliced water?

0

u/CatOnKeyboardInSpace 28d ago

Do you buy a lake?

0

u/CoBudemeRobit 28d ago

are these serious questions? I feel like Im taking crazy pills. False comparisons, all aboard! 

0

u/CatOnKeyboardInSpace 27d ago

Luckily, you’re not the arbiter of what is true or false!

0

u/CoBudemeRobit 27d ago

opinion doesnt change fact 

1

u/CatOnKeyboardInSpace 26d ago

In Canada milk comes in bags!

13

u/crazy_lady_cat Mar 07 '25

And make sure it's not made of plastic! There are a lot of metal and glass ones on the market. Also the flavir is way better and neutral than a plastic reusable bottle (without the plastic taste).

5

u/Lucky_Locks 29d ago

I had a great glass one I got from Target that was my favorite. Cause drinking out of glass just tastes better in my opinion. But one day I wanted to make it colder and didn't really think it through to leave some room for expansion. Anyway, I no longer have my favorite glass water bottle.

2

u/crazy_lady_cat 29d ago

Ah that's so sad! I hope you'll find an even better new one that will hydrate you on a level unknown to humankind.

1

u/tylerd9000 29d ago

I just take my 5 gallon jugs and get them filled at the grocery store. Not sure how much microplastics I get doing that.

48

u/patthew Mar 07 '25

What about plastic brita filters? What about unfiltered tap? What about a third thing I can’t think of right now?

2

u/irishitaliancroat Mar 07 '25

I have an RO counter top filter with a plastic tank and I believe it is all filtered by the time it comes out the spout?

5

u/nayanshah 29d ago

But then filtered water sits around in the plastic tank.

110

u/HerezahTip Mar 07 '25

Crap I’ve been drinking bottled water for like decades

64

u/Frosty-Cap3344 Mar 07 '25

RIP bro

19

u/CoBudemeRobit Mar 07 '25

Rest in Pieces of micrplastics

11

u/juanbiscombe Mar 07 '25

Rest In Plastics

35

u/RootinTootinHootin Mar 07 '25

Ok Barbie

23

u/HerezahTip Mar 07 '25

I’m made of plastic, it’s fantastic!

6

u/Teetseremoonia Mar 07 '25

Can I undress you everywhere?

8

u/HerezahTip Mar 07 '25

Imagination, life is your creation!

7

u/dezertryder Mar 07 '25

Let’s go party! 🎉

5

u/Crezelle Mar 07 '25

Ah ah ahhhhyeah

10

u/nvbomk Mar 07 '25

There’s nothing you can do, it’s in your food too. Its in newborn babies. What I’m saying is, you’re alive.

7

u/UdderTacos Mar 07 '25

I mean the article literally proves there is some things you can do to greatly reduce micro plastic consumption

4

u/HerezahTip Mar 07 '25

Thanks, made me feel a bit better because I did have a bit of an internal freak out after reading this

4

u/nvbomk Mar 07 '25

We can be plastic together❤️

1

u/PerryEllisFkdMyMemaw 29d ago

🎶 life in plastic, it’s fantastic 🎶

11

u/CrystalMushr00m123 Mar 07 '25

My household drinks water bottles because our pipes are lead in our rental. I got a letter from the city letting us know. There are no plans to replace the pipes from both the city and rental complex. It feels like no matter what I cannot escape water contaminated with SOMETHING.

3

u/shiningdickhalloran Mar 07 '25

Same here. And this is true of just about everywhere on the East Coast. A water distiller would work but it's a hassle to do that for a family drinking 2 gallons each day.

2

u/PorcelainCeramic 29d ago

Why are you guys drinking that much distilled water?

1

u/shiningdickhalloran 29d ago

2 gallons across 3 people. I myself shoot for a gallon of water per day but don't always get there. Also, not using a distiller to make it right now. But I'm considering it as a way to get away from plastic. I live in a northeast city and lead soldered pipes are a concern.

1

u/hellishdelusion Mar 07 '25

There's supposedly stone filters commonly used in east asia that help reduce microplastics. You could maybe pour bottled water into that?

If thats not an option boiling water supposedly keeps some of the plastic from staying in our bodies.

22

u/viscousenigma Mar 07 '25

Is this just single use water bottles? I have a water cooler and worry about the 5 gallon plastic jugs leaching it but I’m trying to balance it between potential microplastics and known PFAS in the tap

6

u/StayJaded Mar 07 '25

Those big jugs are often just filled with filtered municipal water. Are you on a well? If you have city water in a city that doesn’t have terrible water quality you’re better off filtering your tap water at home, right? What brand do you get delivered?

3

u/viscousenigma Mar 07 '25

It’s a local company, I pay extra for spring water too. Let me tell you, it hits different. Not sure if it’s in my head, but it feels like the tap water doesn’t quench my thirst the same? The city water isn’t great, I know for sure it has a lot of PFAS in it. Need to do a proper water test to see if there’s anything else alarming

7

u/SexyFat88 Mar 07 '25

No those big jugs are just as bad.

glass only

2

u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

[deleted]

2

u/FatsoKittyCatso Mar 07 '25

There's a hole at the top

(Sorryl

1

u/allupgradeswillblost 28d ago

There’s a metal also. No?

1

u/Gadget18 Mar 07 '25

I’ve been working on avoiding plastics. For the last several years my family uses filtered water from metal bottles or glass ones like this one (I’ve bought several of these): https://a.co/d/jajOBBK

3

u/viscousenigma Mar 07 '25

It’s so difficult! I scooped one of these up when I was in Amsterdam and I love it! It’s made out of sugarcane so maybe it’s just cope, but it makes me feel better about it. The glass ones I find to be a bit heavy and I drop them too much to get a lightweight one

1

u/Gadget18 29d ago

Interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they ship to the USA, where I am.

16

u/Roy4Pris Mar 07 '25

I love my aeropress, but I do wonder how much plastic I’m pressing into my daily coffees

7

u/DappledBrainwave Mar 07 '25

They have a glass one now!

0

u/aol1044 Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Don’t you have to put a decent amount of pressure on your Aeropress to make coffee? A glass Aeropress sounds like a nasty accident waiting to happen…

Update: it’s not dishwasher safe (is it a heat issue? (concerning for a coffee maker if so), or did they cheap out on the metal parts and they corrode/rust/whatever if you put it in the dishwasher?), but it’s “built to perform like our other coffee makers” (from Aeropress’s FAQ on the Aeropress Premium).

I’ve never used an Aeropress, but corporate’s statements surrounding this one are not reassuring.

https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-coffee-maker-premium?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Search_US_Branded_General_Broad&utm_content=Aeropress_and_Variations&campaignid=20978246801&adgroupid=181394890728&location=9011840&keyword=glass%20aeropress&matchtype=e&network=g&device=m&gclid=CjwKCAiArKW-BhAzEiwAZhWsIGF8CxC1ZhfiDliRns_mPantVLil371bZRjmyIe4ZqHpLbEZb9znTRoC4R4QAvD_BwE&creative=735624864415&placement=&target=&adposition=&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAC6cFoe3ESIUTZezMQfCDLhbvXdyF

8

u/RunBrundleson Mar 07 '25

I switched to a pour over and use plain paper filters, tastes fine and zero plastic involved in the equation

16

u/Shabadoo9000 Mar 07 '25

What if I refill my plastic bottle with filtered tap? I'm guessing it's still bad.

21

u/DosMangos Mar 07 '25

The plastic part of the plastic bottle is what is seeping plastic into your body, so yes. Still bad.

3

u/Shabadoo9000 Mar 07 '25

Dang! Thank you for letting me know. I'm probably full of damn plastic by now, haha.

2

u/Gadget18 Mar 07 '25

I’ve been working on avoiding plastics. For the last several years my family uses filtered water from metal bottles or glass ones like this one (I’ve bought several of these): https://a.co/d/jajOBBK

2

u/SayAnythingAgain Mar 07 '25

I've been trying to do better too. I try not to buy synthetic clothes and instead go 100% cotton or all-natural. I stopped using cheap synthetic loofahs and now use a regular wash cloth or natural loofah. I switched to barsoap for shampoo and body wash. I'm struggling finding convenient ways to store items, outside of pyrex (with plastic lids). It's almost impossible to escape, but I assume cutting back where I can is better than doing nothing.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

Just use the same bottle forever. When it disappears, at least you'll know just how much plastic is in you (if that's any comfort).

8

u/Busy-Contact-5133 Mar 07 '25

This news article references to https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0020/article-10.61373-bm025c.0020.xml and this, references to https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517 (which i'll call the final paper) when talking about the comparison between bottled water and filtered tap water. I didn't read the whole final paper but the description on the website, and it compares microplastics between bottled water and tap water, not filtered tap water. Does anyone know how the filtered part was added? The final paper mentions the numbers 90,000 and 4,000 which is mentioned in this new paper too. So i'm asking.

1

u/presidentpt Mar 07 '25

Nice catch

5

u/penguinina_666 Mar 07 '25

I never drank bottled water because we drink water like we breathe and they take so much space in our recycling bin!!

6

u/3739444 Mar 07 '25

Started avoiding drinking or eating out of plastic when we were hearing about BPA and leaching chemicals almost 20 years ago. Have to say it probably didn’t make much difference since micro plastics are in everything now.

4

u/granoladeer Mar 07 '25

Wasn't this widely known already? I'm sure I read it somewhere years ago, when I decided to stop buying plastic water bottles. 

5

u/WildDT Mar 07 '25

What about Britta filters?

13

u/bryanBFLYin Mar 07 '25

Yea it's wild to me that people still buy bottled water. It's one of the biggest scams ever if you live in a country with drinkable tap water.

6

u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

I live in a country with very good tap water, and you couldn't pay me to switch from mineral water. I'm already tired of knowing some people (yourself included, apparently) don't really care about or notice differences in flavor, but typical tap water tastes pretty bad to me, and I'm pretty particular about the mineral water I drink, too. Some just tastes bad.

Only country I've been to where tap water is as good as mineral is Iceland, but that's probably because they have to do little to nothing to the water before it reaches your house.

Basically, what is wild to you is that people can taste things.

3

u/Pretty_Cry_1602 29d ago

My country is very polluted and has "drinkable tap water". People get cancer from it, especially if you are from Dordrecht because their PFAS levels in the soil are high.

So I disagree.

7

u/abracadingus Mar 07 '25

What about the 5 gallon jugs?

12

u/MadamePouleMontreal Mar 07 '25

I can’t switch. I’ve never used bottled water in the first place.

2

u/knowledgeable_diablo Mar 07 '25

Same here. Never understood the people who behave like they are at risk of chronic dehydration if they go over 30min without a gulp of water.\ And that water has to be pure mountain stream water filtered by perfect limestone while the stuff out of the taps (that’s basically the same thing , yes, except you Flint Michigan) is quiet often identical or only a tiny bit different. But certainly better for the environment than destroying some pristine aquifer to pump into little plastic bottles that’ll be used once to sait an imaginary thirst and then thrown into landfill.

6

u/BoxOfDemons Mar 07 '25

There's nothing wrong with carrying water with you, just avoid plastic bottles. I bring a metal bottle of iced tap water with me most places.

1

u/knowledgeable_diablo Mar 07 '25

Nothing wrong at all. Just more maybe discussing the people that’ll be sitting in an office with their bottles of water, within 5mtrs of not just a tap but also pure filtered taps as well. But still they need their bottle of water. They are also likely to make comments on global warming, wastage and recycling but are not quite intelligent enough to u der stand that they are the very pin up person of the problem. But so long as others are willing to change their life styles to pick up their slack, they can see no problem with how they live their life and will be the first to jump up for the annual recycling drive to ensure they are “seen” doing the right thing.

10

u/Free_Return_2358 Mar 07 '25

Well I’m dead.

3

u/Kujen Mar 07 '25

What if you drink your tap water out of plastic cups?

3

u/surfergirl_34 Mar 07 '25

Is canned la croix okay? Kindof live on the Strawberry Peach flavor.

2

u/TwoFlower68 Mar 07 '25 edited 29d ago

The inside of cans have a plastic coating. Best drink clean water. Use a stainless steel bottle for on the go. I have a stainless steel French press for coffee, a stainless steel teapot, stainless steel kettle to boil water. Stainless steel and cast iron cookware, none of that non-stick nonsense. Wooden cutting board, glass food containers... It's a bit more effort, but totally doable

3

u/gandolfthe 29d ago

Who are these insane people drinking water from disposable plastic bottles?!? Wtf is wrong with this world

3

u/natty_ann 29d ago

People who live in places without safe drinking water? This was also very common 10 years ago where I live in the US but has since changed with the popularity of tumblers and things like Stanley mugs.

1

u/Tommonen 29d ago

Muricans

3

u/popular Mar 07 '25

What about toilet water?

2

u/BootySweat0217 Mar 07 '25

What about using a brita? Those are plastic. It filters the tap water but would the brita still produce microplastics?

2

u/Guazzora Mar 07 '25

But what about the sewage now?

2

u/MBlaizze Mar 07 '25

What about the 5 gallon jugs? Less surface area in contact with the bottle

2

u/masturbathon Mar 07 '25

Combine this with the research showing significant amounts of PFAS in some bottled water and other beverages.

2

u/capitali Mar 07 '25

Why do we allow companies to manufacture and sell such a bad product. This needs to stop at the beginning not the end. The consumer here is not the fix. The manufacturers of plastic bottles are the issue. They need to be stopped.

2

u/fumphdik 29d ago

Micro plastics hate this one single trick! Downvoted for shit title. And I’m not gonna click the article because of it.edit. Saw a comment. Good thing I don’t buy bottled water unless I. Going camping.

2

u/SpaceghostLos Mar 07 '25

But what if I want to piss out an origami?

Seriously, will we ever be able to get microplastics out of our system?

2

u/AdhesivenessCivil581 Mar 07 '25

I don't know how people can drink the bottled water. It leaves a plastic chemical taste in the back of my throat that lasts all day. That can't be good for you. I've been filtering my tap water and keeping it in stainless steel for years now.

4

u/PorcelainCeramic 29d ago

Sounds like an allergy to something impo.

1

u/joeyat 29d ago

I've changed to a blunt plastic knife for the spreading of button/margarine on break/toast... pretty any hint of a blade touching the sides of those plastic tubs.. will shower your food with plastic shards.

1

u/D_r_e_cl_cl 29d ago

Dam, I have well water and copper pipes. Guess I'm stuck at my current microplastic intake.

1

u/5432salon 29d ago

Thank you so so much Dupont 🫤

1

u/Repulsive-Shell 29d ago

I live in the desert and have to have bottled water delivered (5 gal). Can I filter that for micro plastics or am I cooked?

1

u/JaCrispyWR 29d ago

Stopped drinking water, problem solved

1

u/Lycanthrosis 29d ago

Can somebody develop a bacteria which just eats plastics that can live in/on us and also maybe poop up super soldier serum?

1

u/fl0o0ps 29d ago

You have to be lucky enough to live in a part of the world where tap water is potable.

1

u/UnrequitedRespect 29d ago

laughs in glacier fed mountain water from Alaska to British Columbia

1

u/AlfredoVignale 29d ago

I don’t drink bottle water and only use metal containers.

1

u/lonehappycamper 29d ago

Our tap water has too much calcium.

1

u/Funsworth1 28d ago

Americans still not seen the advantage of usable tap water?

0

u/Seaguard5 Mar 07 '25

What about 0water filtered?

0

u/ZadfrackGlutz Mar 07 '25

What if you put unfiltered tap water in used plastic bottle... Am I ded?

0

u/Natedoggsk8 Mar 07 '25

I made the switch once I heard about the massive amount of microplastics in all plastic bottles. I was having trouble urinating that went away after switching. I had to drink bottles water for a week again and I had trouble urinating by the 5th day and of course went away when I switched back

-23

u/oldmanbawa Mar 07 '25

Holy crap! Not using as much plastic will reduce plastic particulate intake! Wow. Hope we funded the crap out of this study.

-15

u/visitprattville Mar 07 '25

Transgender! Boo!