Scientists find alarming amount of plastic in bottled water
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Scientists at Columbia and Rutgers have found that bottled water contains high amounts of nanoplastics. There is concern among some scientists that nanoplastics could be small enough to enter the bloodstream and be transported to organs, including the brain. David Schechter reports.
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…..and it’s becoming rarer and rarer to actually be able to drink tap water safely
On a filtered well system you should be fine drinking tap water
@@user-mi3up7ws1fThey are to an extent. But the FDA, EPA, etc. exist to improve our health. They clearly aren't doing enough partly because of corporate lobbying
Look into a kangen machine, certified medical grade unit recommended by the founder of the anti-cancer Institute
Yea like... is this the better alternative ?
Bottled water has been around for a good while and they are just now getting around to testing it?
@@cuteface88is absolutely 💯 right. The food industry contributes greatly to eh FDA and government elections. Next you may start thinking about the pharmaceutical industry. This is just the icing on the cake, people need to wake up.
Its all about the World forum and what they are decided is good or bad. BEWARE
A stainless steel container would be a better choice than aluminum.
Why?
Yeah why!
Aluminum leaches into the water more. Just use bard AI and do a search why Are stainless steel bottles safer than aluminum..... It was too much for me to cutting paste. Bard AI I is cool cause it's free. It's basically a softer metal more prone to corrosion... Especially with hot beverages and acidic beverages. The absolute best would be a metal bottle with a ceramic interior.... But those are really expensive and can break easier.
stainless steel will rust with time spend a lil more and go titanium
@@mmatroll Titanium sounds like a good idea. The bottle I use (for the last fifteen years) is high quality grade 304 non-magnetic stainless steel. Due to its high nickel content, it will not rust in my lifetime or my grandkids lifetime.
Are they more or less dangerous than the chemicals in tap water?
Get a water filtration system
In tap water you get chemical and microplasic 😋
Philly has some of the best tap water in the country. No need to ever drink bottled water there.
Never trust tap water. Don’t cook with it or drink it. Filter bottled water if you have to.
At least bottled water won't turn you into a rainbow amphibian.
The air we breathe is poisonous as well.
Well, in big cities it is
Not in the country
I knew plastic bottles are killing us
Guaranteed during the next 20-30 years scientists and doctors are going to look back on this period in time and gawk at what we were drinking. They'll also undoubtedly find that it caused cancer, kidney issues, and probably gastric disease too. Everything we're drinking and eating these days is poisoned in some way.
Right
Everything is killing us, even the organic stuff that's supposed to be healthy is killing us because they spray chemicals on everything
So yeah let’s drink tap water I’m sure it’s way cleaner….NOT
Its not plastic bottles that are killing us , its the plastic in the water , thats in plastic bottles ( The water already is plasticized before they fill the bottles ) .
Your creek behind your house and rivers as well all have decades of micro plastic in them that have flowing down stream since the 40s .
My husband installs water and sewer lines underground and the amount of chemicals they have to run through the water lines to get the water to pass inspection is insane. Mass amounts of chlorine and the pipes are plastic so I don’t see how tap water is safer.
My husband is in the wastewater/water industry. Non settleable solids are removed using biological digestion and sedimentation, followed by disinfection of pathogens (viruses and disease causing bacteria), usually by chlorination. The last step is _dechlorination._ There are limits to residual chlorine on the NPDES permits, and it's constantly monitored at discharge. Newer plants and areas with money are skipping this entirely by using the safe and effective UV disinfection method.
Tap water is pretty clean in most areas. Sign up for alerts from your local water company so you'll know if any accidents or things like storm surges have affected water supply. You'll then be on a boil advisory .
I will say that there isn't any current common or effective method for removing microplastics and certain forever chemicals from water, so we are probably imbibing these pollutants no matter where we get out water from, unfortunately. This stuff needs to be regulated before they get into our water supplies, but that will never happen.
If you feel it's that bad, how do you feel about your husband poisoning people for money?
Wow that’s insane! Only in America
@@pedalingprospector2007 the unfortunate reality is that our water is so contaminated that the water department has to use different methods to clean it.I lived in an area that used well water and an aerospace company was dumping jet fuel into the ground and contaminated the well water.Many people died or were diagnosed with cancer,myself included.If we rely on companies to provide our resources then we really have to hold ourselves partially accountable for the end result.
@@donnayim6369 All adults should hold themselves accountable for... themselves. Of course, when governments and companies lie to you, it's a tragedy. Once you know these things, if you do nothing, it's willful ignorance--and that's on you. How is your health currently? (recommend Gerson Therapy). "Science" and myriad chemicals aren't the solution to everything. In fact, in our time they are mostly the problem.
What's the problem with going back to using glass bottles?
glass breaks and cuts people....
It's too safe and doesn't leach plastic...lol
Too expensive.
Glass isn't optimal as the world is in short supply of sand according to a BBC 2022 study.
@@notme2day yeah, but glass bottles are truly recyclable, endlessly, and we have plenty of them already
Tap water contains disguised poisons as well…..
Like flouride?
PFOS and/or PFAS. The CDC has detailed info on this.
Yes if filtered, unless they add it? @@truthseek3017
Just boil it and let it cool down and store in fridge
Forever chemicals in tap water and nanoplastics in bottled water..... I bet the majority of the public already forgot about the the forever chemicals in tap water.......
What I would like to know is where do people that live up to 100 years old get their water from?
Yeah, not everybody has good tap water in the US though.
Run the bottled water through a zero filter before you drink it. Helps a lot!
I would filter the tap water before drinking it as well. I use a Berkey water filter.
Does it work good? Was thinking about getting a filter.
I've used one for 2 years now and it's great. Gravity powered, so there's nothing to break but you have to keep it filled or you'll be waiting for a bit for any significant water to get through it
Your Berkeley water filter is made from plastic😂 You're Not Safe no matter what you do
Damn, that shiny hard stuff sure looks a lot like stainless steel but I guess you know better, fella
I've got the Royal Berkey
Pretty sure they knew the entire time!
It’s all the Government it’s 2024 everyone wake up
Face it the world is polluted and we can't escape it, we're gonna die eventually anyways 🤷🏽♀️
This. Don't worry just be happy to be alive.
Things are as they are, because we let them be.
@iamedyson Yes, but we are all going to die anyways regardless of what we do.
@@wendull811 Inaction has consequences.
@iamedyson so does action. The whole reason we switched to plastic was to make things easier and cheaper and to save the world. Just like the reason they switched to plastic bags in the 80's from paper was to save the earth as we were taking and using to many trees and were demisinshing the forest by deforestation. Plastic was going to revolutionize the world. Here, we are not even 50 years later talking about how plastic is destroying everything. So which one is it?
How about the PVC pipes everywhere, plastic pipes, how much chemical leaching and nano plastics from PVC pipes? ALuminm isn;t good either , probably better to use stainless steel.
We just can’t win.
I just read there are only a handful of cities using stainless steel to replace outdated water lines instead of PVC.
Surprisingly, they met with a lot of stonewalling even though residents voted for it.
At least it's not lead like it used to be.
Okay and tap water is not healthy?
Is another reason to quit plastic.
How are y'all just now finding this ?
Glass 5 gallon reusable water bottles worked at one point.
Why don't you tell us which companies?
It's all plastic bottles not just certain companies.
Because that’s a guaranteed lawsuit they would lose. Im sure every bottled water company has this issue
Plastic leeching into food and drink is killing us. I've noticed a plastic-like taste in a lot of bottled waters lately. It's getting so enough that I'm looking for alternatives-like at-home distillation or a high-priced filter.
Bottled water is such a farce; they're not holding it to the standards that it should be for the prices they charge. It's an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, and yet much of it isn't a lot better than tap water.
I wonder if it has to do with the plastic bottles getting flimsier to save money...I mean the environment >.>
Thank you capt obvious 🤦♂️
I mean, I already knew it had plastic, but that much jeez
So tap water is better? Some cities have hard tap water that smells like a sewer and destroys everything it comes in contact with. What’s that about?
Our town upgraded filtration a few years ago and includes filtration for PFAS so the vast majority of water we drink is filtered tap water. We've replaced our plastic water bottles with stainless steel.
My local Tap Kills my house plants, I call bs on tap being safer lmao
@@TalikThealchemist same....
Exactly
So what about everything else in plastic bottles / containers? Milk, juice, foods... Coke can dissolve metal over time, what does it do to a plastic container?
Yes.
Its in a plastic bottle stored in exposed area from manufacture to retail stores for a long period of time so of course.
Almost every "conspiracy" is happening.
But this is old news they've been saying there's microplastics in everything for years, they only needed some scientists to say it. Then you know what happens? Nothing, then the study gets old and then everyone forgets about it and continue to consume stuff that comes in plastic... because pretty much everything comes in plastic.
Reverse Osmosis Filters is the only way now. Tap water and bottled water isn’t the best, but you can do something about tap
Plastic from the filters are also getting into the water. There is literally no escape.
Reverse osmosis removes nutrients in the water that we need. My Royal Berkey removes all micro plastics
@@DIYcedarhilltx Berkey is not NSF certified
@@Kazmatics They are NSF 42 certified for the components used. The testing of the water was done by many non profits and regular people like you and I showed to remove microplastics
@@Kazmatics They are NSF 42 certified for the components
Yeah well for us truck drivers we don’t have tap water 🙄
Well that leaves Californians in peril. They want us drinking recycled waste water from our taps. So basically, we Californians are in trouble. Either way, deciding how we get drinkable safe water is going to be problematic.
Same poeple telling you the risk is "(low)" is the same who said you have to get the "covid shot"
suddenly all this comes out
Been known for almost decade already.
Finally I can prove to my mom that water is not good for me 😂😂
Think soda all the time 😂
Only in tea 😂
How about filtering your bottled water. Because tap water is very nasty and needs to be filtered but can still contain chemicals. When water pipes break and they are fixed there is no way to keep nasty stuff from getting in the water pipes. My old job someone was digging with a backhoe and busted a pipe. It was right by where we washed off our equipment that come from the landfill. That equipment would smell so bad and have needles and diapers in it and it got in the water pipe. The pipe was fixed and no one knew that that nasty landfill water was now in their so called drinking water. So I’d take filtered bottled water any day.
I agree. It has been around 12 years since I last drank tap water. Bottled water is the lesser of the two evils in this situation.
@@JustAnAverageWoman69 exactly. I would not ever recommend drinking tap water unless you have to. Even filtered tap water contains chemicals and no telling what in it that a filter won’t catch.
just get reverse osmosis water system and just add in some electrolyes, also on the go I would get stainless steel or glass water bottle but titanium is best do to no rust forming.
They are going to have to purify the bottled water better. I paid almost 3$ for a bottle the other day, with all that money looks like it would be pure!
Exactly what I was thinking. It's insane that a gallon of Poland Springs water costs the same as a gallon of gasoline, yet the water is held to a VERY low standard.
Sometimes over $5 at a captive audience venue.
News: OMG this is unheard of!
Anyone with functioning tastebuds: bottled water tastes like plastic
Can't win for losing 😢
Ya no shyt.,
Has anyone thought about boxed water ? or is something wrong with it too
Honestly at this point the cardboard or paper fibers would be contaminated with PFAS or plastic as well lol, especially if recycled
Same with cans, they're lined with a plastic coating. Glass would appear to be the safest vessel
@@174trekoh well I never thought about that, I sometimes drink those glass water bottles and glass cokes maybe it is the best option just wish they cheaper were and you could get big packs of them like bottles.
Did they analyze tap water for nano particles before making that recommendation?
Most water filtering uses plastic filters. Did they analyze the output of municipal household and individual water filters for nano particles?
Maybe they are just are more interested in hype and sensationalism, trying to make a name and attract attention, or simply pursuing an agenda to discredit bottled water instead of actually trying to inform people and improve their lives.
Lol...alright...ban bottle water.... Drink your tap water because we always know that's safe....🤪
How about tap water that runs through metal pipes?
metal and even lead have minerals built up on them.
@@FedkaSlovanich I bet those materials are dangerous for human health as well
Lol..the big companys did this..NOT the little people, yet the little people get blamed AND have to deal with the deadly/harmful consequences..fun
Aside from the lead, antibiotics, etc in your tap water
What about soda plastic bottles???
Soda, Juice, Milk...etc
Plastic is in all our food !!!!!
Isn't it common knowledge that the plastic breaks down? So of course there is plastic particles in your drinks
They're not so much particles; they're compounds on the atomic level that are leeching into the water. So for example, the bottles aren't breaking down into pieces, but the chemicals that make up the bottle are slowly getting absorbed by the water. You can really notice this if you leave a bottle of water in the sun on a hot day; you can literally taste the plastic because its breakdown has been accelerated.
@@bveracka that's what I was referring to... I just didn't explain it as well as you did
The part that said media outlets do nothing more than scare consumers…LMFAO!
Don't they dump plastic into the town drinking water at the beginning of the treatment process, anyone compare town water to bottled water?
Not only plastic, what about PFAS? Estimated 90% of Americans have it in their blood.
Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh, good. Us truckers are all getting cancer. How do you think we get water to drink?
Would love to see the debates w/ the leads of these companies. The fact given already, and for quite some time, is they already know about it.
So outside of that, they can't and will not just forfeit their profits, come clean on the subject and scare their consumers/buyers off.
Really though you got to imagine what kind of conversations have been had about this.
The whole worldwide fresh water situation seems apocalyptic. People worldwide are faced with an ever increasing need for hi-tech water filters. Activated Charcoal as well as Reverse Osmosis are probably needed in almost every neighborhood.
In many areas there is a short supply of charcoal which by itself can sweeten water. Resorting to cutting down food trees for charcoal is unacceptable. There are those that use charcoal in the production of alcohol beverage.
Try growing trees and plants that can serve for charcoal if nothing else.
@@googleuser868
Some farms may be too large, too much monoculture, too much cash cropping, and too much industrialized artificiality.
At some point in the future, scientists will find aluminum particles in the aluminum bottles.
Some pipes may have rust please don’t drink from the faucet..
Water in glass bottles and aluminum cans?
Well duh it's bottled in plastic. If liquid sits in plastic for 15 minutes it will then have 28,000 pieces of microplastic in it. How long do you think that water has been bottled in that plastic for? The real problem is when the microplastic is ingested and then attaches itself to the blood cells. Then the blood cells travel around in your system depositing microplastic into your organs. You can then have a heart attack due to microplastic consumption. They bottle it in plastic because it's cheaper and they know it will make you sick eventually which then makes big pharma money. Do not drink tap water it's really dangerous. It has plastic, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals that people peed out , chlorine, highly toxic fluoride and other stuff that people pour down the drain or dispose of.
So what the hell do you drink then? 😂
you need to filter your water.
@@theforsakenwhisperssocietywhich filter do you use?
I'm sure Nestle would prefer people not to be concerned...
Milk in plastic bottle, sauces in plastic, ice cream in plastic so please check them too not just water
So why are they still selling it.
Is it only in bottles of water? Is the statement from the IWBA driven by profit?
The IWBA sounds like a lobby.
Tap water + aluminum. Why not just scoop up gutter water in a lead pipe?
That's why I only drink Cokes!
Well if you're drinking said cokes out of a plastic bottle, you're probably getting about 1000 times the amount of plastic. Coke will eat the paint off your car if you leave it there
😁😆🤣
Lol I love it when the news is 10 plus years behind. This was discovered a long time ago. The news companies these days are idiots.
This is referring to nano plastics not micro plastics. The latter have ben found years ago as you say but the former were confirmed with this study.
Safest way - Boil your tap water and let it cool down, and store in a GLASS jug.
of course the bottled water companies are gonna fight this tooth and nail. They don't wanna lose profits
This just in, aluminum bottles unsafe, use stainless. This just in, stainless bottles unsafe, use glass. This just in, tap water unsafe, use filter. This just in, filters unsafe.....
Did the plastic particles come from the container, the water, or even the filtration system at the bottlers plant?
The container. DUH!
@@DeepDishPizza You have no way of knowing that. Generally, the problem with containers is chemical, the plasticizers used in making the plastic can leach into the water. A granite mountain given time will become sand and a piece of plastic will eventually break down to become a nanoparticle. Note I said eventually because time and outside influences are involved in breaking down plastic. Few things are influencing the inside of a sealed water filled bottle. That is not the case with the water however, it doesn't come with a birth certificate or pedigree. You can never be certain where it has been, what it has been exposed to, or how long it has existed.
@@goldcountryruss7035 What? Go read the actual articles. The hell is wrong with you?
The amount the older generations owe is overwhelming. Every single one had the opportunity to say something, to stand up. They manipulated and still are. I've brought this up neutrally, calmly, and rational. Showing the evidence, the news clips, etc. Their answer is dont be negative. These people are animals.
Where do we go from here because this isnt good. There is too much blood on the older generations hands.
old people aren’t animals they are cool
Seems like the CDC and this news have something in common
hasn’t this been known for decades? like microplastics
Best tip to not have plastics everywhere it stop using single use stuff the best you can
i hate to burst your bubble but what do you think they put the water into
I believe that with the recent development of technology for testing microplastics, we have only just begun to discover their presence. However, it's important to note that our ecosystem may have already been exposed to these particles through natural occurrences such as volcanic eruptions and oil leaching into our water sources, which have been happening for centuries before the creation of plastic items. While I'm not sure if it's possible to carbon date these particles, it's possible that scientists could uncover ancient microplastics if such tests were conducted. A potential area to search for these ancient particles could be our moon, which may have its own rare volcanic eruptions.
Bruh good thought but look around. There is plastic EVERYWHERE. Almost everything we consume is touching plastic
I know the truth is scary
@matthewpowers6600 Microplastics has only worsened since the Industrial Revolution. It's alarming to think about. We've only just begun to identify and address the problem because of advancements in technology and recent testing for microplastics. Perhaps you've noticed a strange taste in your water.
That’s why I use a reverse osmosis system 🤷♂️ and then use aluminum bottle.
Not news. Been that way forever. Besides, plastics are in absolutely EVERYTHING here in 202x. I do mean everything, too. Accept it.
Tell us something we don't know 😅 what happened to bottless water made out of algae?? Like drinking dew drops in the palm of your hand what ever Happened to that break through??
What are we supposed to do?? The water is full of microplastics, the food is either fake or full of chemicals. It seems like theres no escaping from being poisoned these days
Start filtering our water of plastics, at least.
We’ve known for years the effects of pollution yet idiots continue to ignore and dismiss it as a ‘hoax.’
Who’s laughing now? 🤡
Only ones I know that ever called it a hoax are the company's profiting from it
Tap water is hilariously unsafe to consume. I love having a Reverse Osmosis water filtration system in my house. Best Amazon purchase I made.
Aluminum water bottles, please! 😂
And you don’t think apparently.
Would it be better to filter bottled water or tap water. Because tap water has all sorts of chemicals that the filter can't take all out surely.
There is international bottled water association ? I wonder wtf is that and what gives them the right to give any comment on this matter ?
Wait so stainless particles are ok?
Started with tap water, bottled water frenzy was born, now we are back to tap water, soon back to drinking water from wells, this the cycle will continue.
What about fruit juices in plastic bottles?
Tap water is just as bad so it matters not
Yes they don't understand.
I doubt I'm going to live long enough to regret it.
Great. Now what do we do?
Yeah... and what if tap water is toxic or crap where you're at????????????????????????
Only in America
Oh really, how can we avoid this, evewhdre you moved and everwhere you touch are made of plastic, pvc water line, bottled water plastic, dispenser made of plastic container and the dispenser itself are made of pkastic.
Since, the tap watar are contaminated and unsafe for that i started drinking thru bottled water from supermarket znd water dispenser supplied by water station.
Therefore, how to stop those manufacture to stop producing plastic.
It will come the chain reaction if you stop producing plastic, petrochemical plant will shutdown, company production of plastic will shutdown and so onand so forth.
Thanks
Old news.. 🙄
It’s not that significant, just more drama, which will lead to regulations which will increase the prices and our taxes over something trivial
Lol so they just let it happen and won’t stop selling it just like everything else.
So basically all pop comes in plastic and you're not going to tell me that they do anything special to clean out a bottle of pop😂 so pretty much everyone's been drinking this plastic since the '80s😂😂😂😂😂
It's in your SEAFOOD