2024-01-18 05:01:00
An American study revealed that bottles of mineral or spring water can contain 240,000 plastic particles per liter on average. Essentially on the “nano” scale, that is to say the size of a virus.
Questioned at the end of last week, few people in Cher were aware of this recent study. Informed of the results, the people encountered expressed concern and questions. “I haven’t heard of that. Is it in all the bottles? », asks Fatima in the parking lot of a supermarket in Bourges. The one who came to buy Evian for her children’s bottles wonders if her brand is affected. Since bottles of water are often purchased by parents of young children, the first reactions are bitter.
“We are wary of fruits and vegetables because of pesticides, now it’s water because of plastic…”
Pierre regularly goes to supermarkets to buy his water. He feels wronged. Father of a child who he just had to pick up from daycare, he had bottles of Cristaline in his shopping cart. “I come every two weeks to buy two to three packs because it’s the cheapest and it’s recommended for infant feeding, it’s annoying. » Same brand for a woman who cannot drink tap water.
premium Nanoplastics abound in bottled water, but also “in our body, all living things are contaminated”
“I have to buy bottled water because the tap water is hard. With my stomach problems, I have to be careful. It reassures me to see the source on the bottles, unlike others. I used to take Volvic when the children were little,” she said, looking at her now-adult son. “We are wary of fruits and vegetables because of pesticides, now it’s water because of plastic…”
Jeanne, who does not use plastic bottles, may have a solution. She remembers a time when the problem did not arise. “When they put the glass bottles back, it worked very well. With the deposit, we were going to buy candy! ”, she laughs.
Tristan-Sacha Bruchet
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