If You Drink Bottled Water You Are Consuming 640,000 Microplastics

These days lots of people choose bottled water because they think it is safer and cleaner. However, just recently a new report has found out that is not totally true.

Calculate the number of microplastics

We have just received the analysis from Showerstoyou, the specialists in shower and bathroom. They have analyzed the report titled Plus Plastic from Orb Media to see the number of plastics in our bottled water. Particularly, they called this kind of plastics - microplastics.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US defines the microplastics as the type of plastic fragments with the measures of less than five millimeters, and you could find them everywhere these days.

Microplastics are the type of plastic fragments with the measures of less than five millimeters

From their analysis, Showerstoyou has found out that Nestlé Pure Life is the brand with the most microplastics. They have detected in a liter of this brand product more than 10,390 particles. The second worst title belongs to Bisleri, an Indian provider of bottled water. In a liter of Bisleri's product, they have found 5,230 microplastic particles. And the rest spots were taken by Aquafina (1,295), Aqua (4,713), Gerolsteiner (5,160), and Epura (2,267).

San Pellegrino took the best spot on the list with only 74 microplastic particles per liter of their product. Followed them is Minalba (863), Wahaha(731), Evian (256), and Dasani (335).

According to the estimation of Showerstoyou, if you are a user of Nestlé Pure Life you could consume up to 640,024 microplastic particles a year. This variant is not much better for other brands either.

We have a user of Bisleri's product could be consuming up to 322,168 microplastic particles annually. The other is Aqua (290,321), Aquafina (79,772), Epura (139,647), Gerolsteiner (317,856), Minalba (53,161), Dasani (20,636), San Pellegrino (4,558) and Evian (15,770).

To come up with these numbers of the consumptions for the whole year, they took the highest number of microplastic in each bottle and multiplied it by the average rate of global consumption of bottled water per person.

A problem of everyone

This problem of these microplastics is literally everywhere.  They infected our source of drinking water and killed marine life. The outcomes of these microplastics are ubiquitous these days.

They estimate that about 79% of the plastics that we have produced since the 50s' has ended up in our environment or landfills. Moreover, our ocean has been hosting the Great Pacific garbage patch for years now. It is an accumulation of oceanic plastic which is twice the size of Texas.