Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
Its literally in the rain, basically you cant really escape microplastics maybe reduce it by spending blood at lot, dont use plastic boards for cutting and reduce plastic container ware, also buy natural fibers for your bed, wash cloths & clothes.
Yeah exactly, microplastics are truly unavoidable. You can reduce the amount but like leaded gasoline in air theres fuckall you can do. Unlike lead in the air tho microplastics probably arent at the same sort of health hazard. Endocrine disruption from pthalate additives is the biggest concern and that could be mitigated by not using pthalates anymore (and not replacing them with something worse)
Concentrated products would solve a lot of problems. Dry laundry/dish powder for example is usually accepted as the most eco-friendly option. You get more loads/lb because it isn’t 90% water. You can have unique formulas because you can physically seperate components. You can store it in a cardboard box without plastic because it isn’t liquid. Can be cleaned up dry. Etc,etc.
But of course its less convenient, sometimes requires more care (some require you to dilute them or not dump it all in at once or whatever), or is otherwise less “cool”. Like I associated laundry powder with my granddad. But its being promoted again because you can have a bucket of it that is equal to 10 jugs of liquid.
Or like drinks, whats “better”, buying premade tea or buy a box of tea packets? Its nice to grab a bottle of tea once and awhile, but a single box makes many gallons of tea. And you can control how it tastes, what you put in it, etc. I like some yerba mate (overly sweet American style, haven’t had “real” stuff yet), but its all premade here. Gimme some of the leaves and I’d buy it just like coffee beans.
problem with glass is it breaks. second problem is it’s heavy.
Those are downsides I am willing to accept for less of my brain to be filled with plastic.
Third, they STILL have microplastics from the seal and manufacturing process.
Its literally in the rain, basically you cant really escape microplastics maybe reduce it by spending blood at lot, dont use plastic boards for cutting and reduce plastic container ware, also buy natural fibers for your bed, wash cloths & clothes.
Yeah exactly, microplastics are truly unavoidable. You can reduce the amount but like leaded gasoline in air theres fuckall you can do. Unlike lead in the air tho microplastics probably arent at the same sort of health hazard. Endocrine disruption from pthalate additives is the biggest concern and that could be mitigated by not using pthalates anymore (and not replacing them with something worse)
Concentrated products would solve a lot of problems. Dry laundry/dish powder for example is usually accepted as the most eco-friendly option. You get more loads/lb because it isn’t 90% water. You can have unique formulas because you can physically seperate components. You can store it in a cardboard box without plastic because it isn’t liquid. Can be cleaned up dry. Etc,etc.
But of course its less convenient, sometimes requires more care (some require you to dilute them or not dump it all in at once or whatever), or is otherwise less “cool”. Like I associated laundry powder with my granddad. But its being promoted again because you can have a bucket of it that is equal to 10 jugs of liquid.
Or like drinks, whats “better”, buying premade tea or buy a box of tea packets? Its nice to grab a bottle of tea once and awhile, but a single box makes many gallons of tea. And you can control how it tastes, what you put in it, etc. I like some yerba mate (overly sweet American style, haven’t had “real” stuff yet), but its all premade here. Gimme some of the leaves and I’d buy it just like coffee beans.