Here’s what’s in your bottled water (Marketplace)

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Ever wonder what’s lurking in your bottled water? Marketplace asked a lab to test five of the top-selling brands of bottled water in Canada, and microplastics were found in all of them.
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29 COMMENTS

  1. We didn’t say that plastic was safe and better for the environment. We were fine using natural materials. Scientists said plastic was better for the environment.

  2. This is less about bottled water than it is about water itself. Microplastics are everywhere and part of the reason is all of the plastic bottles we use for water but even without bottled water we would have microplastics everywhere, including our water. There is a difference between spring water and filtered or "purified (tap)" water. When I open the kitchen tap I can smell a stronger bleach odor than the water in the swimming pool when the pool chemicals are at the right levels. I tested kitchen tap water with the swimming pool water test kit & the total chlorine content was at the perfect level for the pool. The free chlorine content was also at the perfect level for the pool. The PH and the alkalinity were both close to the right amount for swimming pool water.

  3. Yeah….over analising it……just look at the population of north America….. Plastics in the medical industry makes us live to be 80 or 90…..even if we drink it in small amounts from bottled water…….interesting study……we've got bigger fish to fry…..nuclear weapons, killing each other in bloody wars all over the planet 🌏…..

  4. I understand bottled water to a point. Your out and about, your thirsty, okay buy a bottle. But if your at home, unless there is some sort of issue with your source of water that you absolutely cannot fix, there is zero need to buy cases by the case. IF you use water every day at work, buy a nice insulated tumbler, and put some ice in it with water.

  5. I've got to stop going down this rabbit hole. I started with spy camera contractors doing fraud. Then extended warrantee car fraud. Then the meat industry. Can't eat meat. Bread baked with sawdust. Now I can't even drink water. Let me tell you my experience. I drank water from a hose, had the 5 second rule for most other edible items, and have lived 60 years with minimal problems..

  6. Even I buy bottled water only in the 4 liter size. They don't tell you how they filter the product. Laurentian water has a bottling plant near here. Water filtration needs to be done in stages not pushed through a maze of filters.

  7. I think it is nothing more than a big con. Water probably comes out of a tap, gets filtered and then sold off. I din't get it why people buy water when you can have puratap filtering system at home and just use that. Besides. Much cheaper in the long run.

  8. A typical Reverse Osmosis + De-ionization system at home will bring total dissolved solids to 0 and micron size to no bigger than 2.

  9. Can't believe they compare Dasani and Aquafina (= tab water) with the real sources water in bottle !! OF COURSE YOU WILL FIND ALL THE TAB CRAP IN Dasani and Aquafina!!!!!!!!!!!!
    When will the same "study" will be done for tab water and talked about in the media 🤔? I guess it will NEVER happen 😅😂 I prefer plastic over tab water chlore, fluor, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones and other mix of drugs residues !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  10. Please revisit this with the recently released studies.

    Go through each water filter and tell us which one filters the most microplastics that they all advertise they do

  11. So mention of the toxic chemicals for in tap and bottled water? Just focus on the plastics and nothing else? This is why people turn away from mainstream media, it’s nothing but pure lies and half truths, always with an agenda to push.

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