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   Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 01:57:34 JST Sally Strange

   "Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought:

   Researchers cut their bottled water use after shocking discovery of a quarter of a million tiny plastic pieces per litre.

   The average litre of bottled water has nearly a quarter of a million pieces of microplastics and tiny, invisible nanoplastics, new research has found."

   Adding to the problem: water filters can also introduce plastics to water.

   #Environment #Pollution #Plastics #PlasticPollution #NanoPlastics

   https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/09/bottled-water-contains-100-times-more-plastic-nanoparticles-than-previously-thought

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     Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) (mitch@posts.dumb.stuff.donaberger.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 02:54:12 JST Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)

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     @SallyStrange @Pagan_Animist

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     Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 02:54:14 JST Sally Strange

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     • Exiled New Yorker - Connie

     @Pagan_Animist Me neither tbh. I still think it's probably an easy choice: filtered tap water is better than water bottled in plastic for a multitude of reasons. Far more feasible to create non-polluting (or less polluting anyway) filters than it is to switch the entire godforsaken bottled water industry to something besides plastic. It's an industry that really should not exist.

     carl marks repeated this.
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     Exiled New Yorker - Connie (pagan_animist@beekeeping.ninja)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 02:54:16 JST Exiled New Yorker - Connie

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     @SallyStrange
     I read that this morning.
     It made me happy about using a filter at home and taking that water instead of bottled.
     Then I stopped to wonder how many microns of plastic my filter is reintroducing into my “filtered” water.

     Today, I don’t want to know.