Microplastics in your drinks

Just stumbled across this information. Apparently we don't have to worry as much about the microplastics in the environment as much as the microplastics we are brewing for ourselves to drink.

Yes, apparently tea bags are a source of microplastics in the common household. I would also guess that coffee filters, being pretty much the same material, also do this.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

Oh what have we been doing to ourselves all these many years? Don't get me wrong, all microplastics are bad but in the tea bags? Humanity is slowly poisoning ourselves and everything on the planet.

So, has anyone got an idea of what to drink?

a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3

Every organ in our body is full of and being damaged by microplastics. It's in our water, our soil, the food we consume, the clothes we wera, the air we breathe, the medicines we take.

Nearly everything we consume today is made with or full of microplastics. We have creatted the perfect toxic environment, but look over there! Global warming! Oh, no!

It's too late to close the barn door now.

Looks like some teabags are better than others
It's alarming how much plastic appears to be in paper.....


Both articles are from 2022 so not terribly current
www.ethicalconsumer.org...
www.countryliving.com...

www.cnn.com...
Yikes. If the teabags don't get ya, the salad, rice, and packaged cheese slices will:

Plastics are everywhere
There are a staggering number of plastics in the world, today, according to a recent analysis — 16,000 plastic chemicals, with at least 4,200 of those considered to be “highly hazardous” to human health and the environment.

As these chemicals break down in the environment, they can turn into microplastics and then nanoplastics, particles so small science struggled for decades to see them.

And don't forget the bottled water....

Let’s not forget bottled water. One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, including nanoplastics, according to a March 2024 study.

a reply to: nugget1

I am working on a thread about another microplastics desester. Like the man said, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe
unbelievable! Here in the south we drink a lot of water either from the tap or from glass bottles. But also a lot of plastic, from discount stores. Because it's easier to carry than a hard plastic box with 18 bottles weighing 1kg.

but I've always preferred glass, it just tastes much more neutral from a glass bottle. If you add up your figures, it adds up to a lot that I miss out on every day.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Are you aware the rice might be a form of plastic. The Chinese can manufacture rice. I have seen videos of handmade eggs.

Anything for a profit even if it kills eventually.

a reply to: BeyondKnowledge3

Gee, I just posted this on another one of your threads, then I go down and see you already made a thread on it. Good job, I don't care to make threads much and if nobody mentioned it tonight I would have considered it important enough to make one.

Elements of flouride compounds can increase the bioavailability of plastic absorption, and tea has lots of flouride...couple that with flouride in water and what do you get? Plastic coated teeth?

a reply to: rickymouse

I was just about to reply about this thread to you on the other one. This is what pushed me to make that one.

Now, do our bodies adapt to their new makeup of plastics and other chemicals or do we fade away?

originally posted by: BeyondKnowledge3
a reply to: rickymouse

I was just about to reply about this thread to you on the other one. This is what pushed me to make that one.

Now, do our bodies adapt to their new makeup of plastics and other chemicals or do we fade away?

It would take many generations for our bodies to adapt to these things we have created in a few generations. It does not look good for us or for Nature. Only microbes can replicate fast enough to be able to become immune to those chemicals since we introduced them, using horizontal transfer of epigenetic traits to other microbes to aid in their ability to survive.

I have seen a hundred fold increase in plastic use within my lifetime, I used to go to the dump with my father to shoot rats for the city so they would not multiply there and get into town. There was mostly only bakolite in the dumps when I was shooting them with a bb gun, he had a twenty two with birdshot. Now, there is lots of plastic getting buried and it is everywhere in our environment. There is even plastic in the fish from lake superior, much of what comes from makeup I guess that goes out with the water. They made baby powder bad, that used to be in lots of makeup before, that was not nearly as bad as the plastic powders.

Our brains now have a certain amount of plastic in them. Some test have concluded. Scary.

I’ll look for the study when I’ve time.

We re-use our plastic bottles and refill from the tap....I found out recently that the bottles break down over time and yep...microplastics.

I might have to source some resealable glass bottles sometime in the future.

Don't need much, just a few.

We've got other priorities right now that take precedence.

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a reply to: Naftalin

Yes. Prefer glass for storage and drinking.
Almost every other material gives an off taste.
Although, we do use a good stainless steel cup in the bathroom...to avoid glass and bare feet at night.

Styrofoam is another material I avoid. Nothing worse than instant coffee in a Styrofoam cup.
I shudder to think of all the hot meals served on Styrofoam in the USA.