Bottled water is a dangerous habit
People in the united states buy half a billion bottles of water a week,more than enough to circle the globe 5 times.Americans use 3 million disposable water bottles an hour.The average American drinks about 31 gallons of bottled water a year.
More than 70% of those bottles wind up in the ocean and landfills.PET plastic water bottles leach the carcinogen antimony.Disposable water bottles leach hormone disrupting chemicals.A single bottled water contains up to 24,500 chemicals.
The hormone activity of bottled water is on par with the prostate cancer drug Flutamide.Tap water did not show signs of this hormonal interference.
Lab testing of bottled water detected mixtures of 38 different pollutants,including:
1、Bacteria
2、Fertilizer
3、Tylenol
4、Industrial
5、Chemicals
6、Cancer-causing chlorination byproducts
Bottle water A health destroyer?
Contamination of bottled water results in human exposure to hormone disruptors.
Estrogenicity in water from plastic bottles is three times higher compared to glass.
A recent study found 11 out of 18 bottled water sampled induced estrogenic effects in a human cancer cell line.
Experts have told the BBC that people in developing countries where tap water may be polluted should continue to drink water from plastic bottles.
Test on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different countries were examined. Research led by journalism organization Orb Media discovered an average of 10 plastic particles per liter, each larger than the width of a human hair.
Test on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different countries were examined. Research led by journalism organization Orb Media discovered an average of 10 plastic particles per liter, each larger than the width of a human hair.
Analysis of 259 bottles of water, which were produced by 11 brands and bought in nine different countries, revealed that micro-plastics were present in 93% of the samples.
The study, commissioned by US journalism project Orb Media, found an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water sold.
The study, commissioned by US journalism project Orb Media, found an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water sold.
What are you paying for?
Bottled water costs about 2,000 times more than tap water.In the U.S. 24 percent of bottled water sold is either Pepsi’s Aquafina or Coke’s Dasani.
The solution?
Drink filtered tap water.
