An American study found that a bottle of mineral or spring water can contain an average of 240,000 plastic particles per liter. Essentially on the “nano” scale, ie the size of a virus.
Visited late last week, few people in the chair were aware of this latest study. When the results were announced, people faced anxiety and questions. “I haven’t heard about it. Is it in all the bottles? », asks Fatima in the parking lot of a supermarket in Borges. Who came to buy Evian for her baby bottles wonders if the brand has been affected. Water bottles are mostly mothers of small children- Being bought by the father, the first reactions are bitter.
“We’re wary of fruits and vegetables because of pesticides, now it’s water because of plastic…”
Pierre regularly goes to the supermarket to buy his water. He feels injustice. The father of a child he had just picked up from daycare had bottles of Crystalline in his shopping cart. “I come to buy two to three packs every two weeks because it’s the cheapest and recommended for infant feeding, it’s annoying. » Same brand for women who cannot drink tap water.
premium Nanoplastics are abundant in bottled water, but “in our bodies, all living things are contaminated.”
“I have to buy bottled water because the tap water is hard. With my stomach problems, I have to be careful. Unlike others, it reassures me to see the source on the bottles. I used to take Volvik when the kids were small,” she said, looking at her now-grown son. “We’re wary of fruits and vegetables because of pesticides, now it’s water because of plastic…”
Genie, who doesn’t use plastic bottles, may have a solution. She remembers a time when the problem did not arise. “When they put the glass bottles back in, it worked very well. With the deposit, we were going to buy candy! ”, he laughs.
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