5 comments

  • jayknight 8 hours ago ago

    >She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.

    So a 3-4x increase.

  • integralid 7 hours ago ago

    Is this specific to water bottles? What about people who drink cola from plastic bottles daily?

    • tim-tday 4 hours ago ago

      It’s the plastic bottle. Anything packaged in a plastic bottle will have the same effect. Although the acidity of the soda will probably increase the plastic shedding.

  • metalman 7 hours ago ago

    there are adults alive now who not only have never eaten or drunk anything that was not packaged/contained in plastic, they are also afraid of unpackaged food certain "grey" zone tracking and fingerprinting methods could easily verify exactly who these people are what to say grey zone, I switched most of my personal consumption to cash purchases after my bank made a default feature tracking my spending, that sent me an alert when I bought too much food.

    • tim-tday 4 hours ago ago

      I’m failing to see the point of this comment.