Paul Saladino· MD
Drinking water from plastic bottles is the biggest source of microplastics.
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Drinking water from plastic bottles is the biggest source of microplastics.
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Yes, but the water gets contaminated with microplastics after sitting in a plastic bottle for a very long time.
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of microplastics per liter, especially if it's been sitting on the shelf at Costco for 6 months or sitting in your car in 200°ree heat as the car is turning into a sauna.
Bottled water, which one study found 240,000 particles in a liter.
When you heat liquids in these or you put hot liquids into them, millions of microplastics are released per liter.
Microplastics are a different story. And again, the plastic bottled waters are the major issue here. 250,000 microplastics and nanoplastics when measured by a special set of microscopy at Columbia University in plastic water bottles.