Don’t get me wrong, I do find this information interesting. It’s still just about as useful as eating a huge bucket of greasy fried chicken and then chasing it down with a Diet Coke, and thinking you’re accomplishing something.
The chicken, and any other foods you eat, still have microplastics in it. Unless you treat all the water, not just for yourself, but for the foods we grow to eat too. Not very feasible when you think of the bigger picture.
They also say microplastics are even found in the clouds. Clouds are basically just saturated humidity, aka water in the air. There’s pretty much no such thing as air with 0% humidity, so you’re literally breathing in trace amounts of microplastics, right this moment, while you’re reading my comment.
And where are you gonna store the boiled water anyways? I don’t know of anyone that keeps glass bottles around these days. I guess you could put it in a metal thermos, soldered together with lead based solder…
If I spent every day freaking out about every little thing I can do to try to extend my life by 6 months or whatever, I’d end up dying of a heart attack.
If people really wanna put a serious dent in the microplastic problem, they need to focus way more on removing all the macroplastics from the oceans and the environment. Boiling a pot of water every now and then ain’t doing much of shit.
fluids should be around two 3rds of what you consume every day by weight. Reducing microplastics in there by 80% is a huge improvement, not at all comparable to your dieting allegory
for the same reason, the microplastics we breathe in are unfortunate, hopefully some day eradicated, but negligible compared to what we consume
it’s not my fault your country still allows lead based solder and you don’t know what a tea pot is. Hot tip: You can boil your water every day in it.
Again, people can care about 2 things at once. Just because I don’t have any idea how to deal with the great pacific garbage patch doesn’t mean I might as well eat the plastic wrapper with my food inside it.
Don’t get me wrong, I do find this information interesting. It’s still just about as useful as eating a huge bucket of greasy fried chicken and then chasing it down with a Diet Coke, and thinking you’re accomplishing something.
The chicken, and any other foods you eat, still have microplastics in it. Unless you treat all the water, not just for yourself, but for the foods we grow to eat too. Not very feasible when you think of the bigger picture.
They also say microplastics are even found in the clouds. Clouds are basically just saturated humidity, aka water in the air. There’s pretty much no such thing as air with 0% humidity, so you’re literally breathing in trace amounts of microplastics, right this moment, while you’re reading my comment.
And where are you gonna store the boiled water anyways? I don’t know of anyone that keeps glass bottles around these days. I guess you could put it in a metal thermos, soldered together with lead based solder…
If I spent every day freaking out about every little thing I can do to try to extend my life by 6 months or whatever, I’d end up dying of a heart attack.
If people really wanna put a serious dent in the microplastic problem, they need to focus way more on removing all the macroplastics from the oceans and the environment. Boiling a pot of water every now and then ain’t doing much of shit.
A wise man once told me that perfect is the enemy of good.
Boil your water if it’s worth the effort for you. Otherwise don’t. For many of us, it’s a small effort for small gains.
Ugh.