Your drinking water is in plastic: Report

Publish Date: sun, 18 Mar 2018 02:59 PM (IST) Even if you do not believe but the companies claiming to provide the purest bottle water are also getting plastic, it is said to be a researcher. ...

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You may be surprised, but in one research, it has been claimed that despite the huge annual trade of about $ 150 billion of companies making bottled water in different countries of the world, it is not safe. Research has shown that there are many elements of harmful substances available for the microscopic particles of plastic and humans. This research is done by orb media, a non-profit organization in the US. The organization has claimed in its report that elements of polypropylene, nylon and polyethylene terephthalate present in more than 90 percent of bottled water are present.

Samples collected from five continents

Research claims that a person drinking one liter bottle of water in one day consumes with ten thousand particles of plastic every year. Research found that plastic was found in 93 percent of the samples. However, researchers have not yet been able to get complete information about its side effects on the human body. For the research, samples were collected from 19 locations in India, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Thailand and America from five continents. To identify the invisible particles of plastic in bottled water, the researchers used special dye and blue light. Thanks