It is a public administrative body reporting to the Ministries of Health, the Environment, Agriculture, and Labour.
We better evolve to tolerate some level of microplastics because they're not going away any time soon. It's mind boggling how many microplastics sources are in modern civilization, and how hard it would be to eliminate say half of them.
They didn't even identify if problem is the glass or stuff like pains around the glass.
So yeah, sure, there are microplastics in drinks in glass bottles. But to say they contain “more” microplastics than plastic containers sounds like the BS concocted by packaging lobby.
Here’s a fun fact: did you know that a good RO system can filter out most microplastics from the tap water, but it also releases some (of its own) into the filtered water! We really dug ourselves into a big hole by using plastics for just about everything.
I think nothing short of a global catastrophe will change people's minds.
You mean like global warming and how the climate change catastrophe we are experiencing has changed human behavior to stop polluting? <sarcastic mode>
I can't imagine that anything will change the minds of the majority of people to the point where they drastically change their lifestyles.
So what we might see is - an early adoption in some industries and use-cases and a slower adoption in others while better materials are invented/discovered.
On a brighter note, with all the kick-ass compute we’ll have in triple digit billion dollar AI facilities, that opens up scope for new discoveries in science. Hopefully, accelerating its pace.
We should be moving to ban plastics in consumer goods but because they have become so ubiquitous there is basically zero chance of that ever happening
Old news https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512...
> maybe even in milk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03458-7
https://journals.lww.com/kleu/fulltext/2024/17020/qualitativ...
> eggs
And yet we survived -- or rather, significantly improved our living standards.
Pretty sure meat and chicken already contain them to varying degrees.
Ironically, biological structures are made of the same or very similar polymers as synthetic plastics.
It's not BS. This is a government lab. The scientists clearly identified the source of the extra microplastics, the paint on the bottle caps.
Home distillation is cheaper than RO (esp. if you have solar) and doesn't release microplastics. Just remineralize with a high-quality salt
Our best hope is nanotechnology and bots or maybe even bioengineered cells or microorganisms that can get in there and eat them or at least reroute them out of the human body through natural pathways.
Does anyone here know if they are RO systems that don't have that problem?
robcohen•2h ago
nextos•1h ago
In case of water, both glass and plastic are quite clean in terms of microplastic particles. Beer (glass) seems to be heavily contaminated.
If I'm reading this correctly, it seems that glass bottles are often paired with resin or PET-coated caps, which shed quite a lot of microparticles.
[1] https://anses.hal.science/anses-05066642v1/file/Chaib_JFCA_2...
Groxx•1h ago
So a useful study to say "stop painting the insides of caps, duh" but it hardly seems like anything intrinsic to the container. And hard to extrapolate to other areas which may not paint their caps, or anything that uses corks.
card_zero•59m ago
Groxx•35m ago
Though also:
>The results show that glass containers were more contaminated than other packaging for all beverages except wine, because wine bottles were closed with cork stoppers rather than metal caps.
So yeah. Cap differences, probably for fashion more than function, which are probably easily remedied.
zeristor•1h ago
singleshot_•1h ago