I've been saying this to people for a long time. Here in my country, most water filters are based on charcoal and a final filtering element. That element used to be made of cellulose and other organic materials, but in the last decade, they started coming with that element made of polypropylene, until all the cellulose ones disappeared from the market. Just imagine your water passing though a porous layer of plastic, like a rigid sponge... this is a serious microplastic source.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're talking like .01% as much plastic use per liter as plastic bottle water packs. Is that not....much much better?

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure how much microplastics are released in that way. It can be better than bottles, but if we used non plastic materials for so long, and it worked fine, I see no reason to put plastic in there.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Plastic is like lead, there shouldnt be any in our systems

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

It's like it in that this is true, but there's a big, big, big difference in how big a deal a given amount being in our systems is.