A Southern California environmental group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for allowing bottled water company BlueTriton Brands to pipe water out of the San Bernardino National Forest. The nonprofit group Save Our Forest Assn. filed the lawsuit in federal court, arguing the Forest Service violated federal laws by allowing the company to continue piping […]
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A Massive Bottled Water Recall Has Been Issued Nationwide—Here’s Why
Bottled water Summer is (unofficially) here, and if there’s one thing you can guarantee everyone will be doing, it’s staying hydrated. While the uptick of tumblers has many shoppers in a frenzy and ditching one-use plastic water bottles for a consistent on-the-go option, if you’re one who still grabs a bottle of water while out or […]
DPH warns public not to drink bottled water from Mass. company due to PFAS contamination
DPH warns public not to drink bottled water from Mass. company due to PFAS contamination The Department of Public Health is warning the public not to drink bottled water from a Massachusetts company due to PFAS contamination. In a public health advisory issued Wednesday, officials advised consumers not to purchase or consume bottled water or […]
Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics, new study shows. How can you avoid them?
Scientists from Columbia University are raising alarm bells about the amount of small flecks of plastic — known as nanoplastics — in bottled drinking water. Their research, which was published on Jan. 8 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that three popular plastic water bottle brands (which went unnamed in […]
Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics so small they can invade the body’s cells, study says
In a trailblazing new study, researchers have discovered bottled water sold in stores can contain 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than previously estimated — nanoparticles so infinitesimally tiny they cannot be seen under a microscope. At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, nanoplastics are so teeny they can migrate through […]
Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their calculations they never […]