Soldato
Right... Where's @dowie when you need him... A dowie-hole is not official until he has chimed in!!
Micro plastic in water
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IT ISN'T A DOWIE HOLE, IT IS A DEEP SEMANTIC LINGUISTIC or w/e this new Reality guy has proposed.Right... Where's @dowie when you need him... A dowie-hole is not official until he has chimed in!!
Soldato
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@Richie thank for using the dowie arbitration service.
It's quite apparent that andy is right and dlockers is wrong and is being rather silly about it as usual.
See plastic water bottles are made out of... erm... plastic.
And yes that does, in fact, create microplastics, in particular when the cap is turned:
www.ewg.org
See also:
www.smithsonianmag.com
The high levels of microplastics in plastic bottled water has been documented many times, yes there are some present in water in general but they're at significantly higher levels in plastic bottles and it shouldn't really seem absurd that part of that is down to the fact the bottle is made out of plastic!
Why? Do you think the plastic bottle creates micro-plastics?
It's quite apparent that andy is right and dlockers is wrong and is being rather silly about it as usual.
See plastic water bottles are made out of... erm... plastic.
And yes that does, in fact, create microplastics, in particular when the cap is turned:
What’s in your water bottle? Concerns about microplastics in caps
When you drink from a plastic water bottle, you could be exposing yourself to tiny, potentially harmful plastic particles known as microplastics.
See also:
Study Finds Microplastics in More than 90 Percent of Tested Water Bottles
But the effects of microplastics on human health are far from clear
www.smithsonianmag.com
The high levels of microplastics in plastic bottled water has been documented many times, yes there are some present in water in general but they're at significantly higher levels in plastic bottles and it shouldn't really seem absurd that part of that is down to the fact the bottle is made out of plastic!
Man of Honour
Absolutely not even a little bit. One is physical bits of whole plastic, the other is chemicals leaching from the plastic.
Soldato
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Yes and no. You only referred to the post about bottle creating microplastics but have failed to reference the initial argument from around post 10 - Microplastics and Plastic Leeching Chemicals being different.
Don’t come at me with semantic nonsense bro.
Do you really need clarification that chemicals from plastic and micro plastics aren’t the same thing? No I don’t think you do, you’re smart enough to know better ergo the dowie arbitration service has focused on the pertinent issue.
Yes plastic bottles leak chemicals but they also cause high levels of micro plastics too.
You’re welcome.
Soldato
Too late. It's already in the food chain. You are eating it, every day.
What was once hailed as a miracle product, is going to turn out to be the bane of mankind for thousands of years to come.
What was once hailed as a miracle product, is going to turn out to be the bane of mankind for thousands of years to come.
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Soldato
I've always just assumed it means you can put it in the dishwasher
Found the closet "Aqua" fan.......
Soldato
Don’t come at me with semantic nonsense bro.
Do you really need clarification that chemicals from plastic and micro plastics aren’t the same thing? No I don’t think you do, you’re smart enough to know better ergo the dowie arbitration service has focused on the pertinent issue.
Oh, I dont, the argument didnt involve me, just @dlockers and @Jack_green
Yeah you're going to be exposed to some but you can certainly reduce exposure - IIRC plastic bottles contain 60 times the amount vs regular water.
You can reduce it in regular water too via filtering or boiling + of course prepping food from scratch can always help too.
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Man made fibres will be the next big scare imo.
even nylon takes 30-40 years to break down.
Almost all my clothes are blue/navy blue and the dust in my house is literally that colour.
So I know its all my clothes shedding microscopic strands.
If it gets in your lungs its obviously going to sit there probably until you die, no doubt it causes some kind of irritation as well.
even nylon takes 30-40 years to break down.
Almost all my clothes are blue/navy blue and the dust in my house is literally that colour.
So I know its all my clothes shedding microscopic strands.
If it gets in your lungs its obviously going to sit there probably until you die, no doubt it causes some kind of irritation as well.
yea but all plastics still breakdown and are bad, even plants have been found to have plastic in them, our whole food chain does
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That and all the soy they put in everything
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Amazing. That’s many many times worse.
nothing to do with peoples diets changing to basically fast food and snacks.
Soldato
One thing to keep in mind is that there is no good evidence that microplastics cause any harm... yet.
There have been about three generations exposed to microplastics, and we haven't seen anything major that could be attributed to them as yet, likely due to their extremely non-reactive nature. Increased rates of cancer and mental problems are more attributed to better ability to diagnose rather than the plastic menace.
That is of course NOT to say we should allow this crap willy-nilly. The fact nanoplastics can cross the blood brain barrier is pretty scary.
There have been about three generations exposed to microplastics, and we haven't seen anything major that could be attributed to them as yet, likely due to their extremely non-reactive nature. Increased rates of cancer and mental problems are more attributed to better ability to diagnose rather than the plastic menace.
That is of course NOT to say we should allow this crap willy-nilly. The fact nanoplastics can cross the blood brain barrier is pretty scary.
