Bryan Johnson· Author
glass-bottled beverages carried far more plastic shrapnel than plastic bottles or cans.
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glass-bottled beverages carried far more plastic shrapnel than plastic bottles or cans.
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Around a hundred microplastic particles per litre” in cola, lemonade, iced tea and beer packed in glass — 5 – 50 × higher than their plastic-bottled or canned twins.
The big news is there was this French study that came out that said that water in glass bottles have five to 50 times the microplastics that plastic bottles have.
so the French uh thank you French they did a study looking at uh particles per liter in cola, lemonade, iced tea and beer packed in glass. And what they found is that uh they had five to 50 times higher uh concentration microplastics than their uh bottled plastic bottled or canned twins.
So glass bottle is not safe. Plastic bottles not safe. Aluminum cans not safe.
glass bottles have five to 50x the microplastics as plastic bottles
The products in that study that actually had the highest amount of microplastics, orders of magnitude higher than glass bottles, were things like beer, lemonade, and sodas.
Water from glass bottles might contain up to 3x more microplastics than plastic bottles.
with far fewer MPs (1.5–2.4 MPs/L) in plastic bottles or cans.
Beer topped the list, with small glass bottles averaging 134 microplastics per liter (MPs/L). Lemonades (112 MPs/L), colas (103 MPs/L), and cold teas (86 MPs/L) followed (all in glass)