Harmful effects of plastic water bottles on humans

Hello friends today we are going to see about site effects of  plastic water bottles & which are good and bad plastics.

Plastic forms an integral part of our  life. so  we cannot avoid plastic but these days  we use plastic in the form of storing  water, mineral water & juices we are getting from  plastic bottles and also we have  reusable plastic bottles and also we  have  plastic containers & reusable plastic container which are one time use we get from  restaurants as a parcel food so the main  question here is are these plastics safe? or these plastics carcinogenic can we  use it safely? that is the main question  i will answer this question clearly in  this article using the recycle number for  the plastics.

Pet Bottles:

Let us see about the pet bottle pet. pet stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. so polyethylene  see this pet bottle it is written  crushed after use very clearly written  in all the pet bottles that crash after  use so don't use it a second time why  because terephthalate in the  polyethylene thalate releases from the  pet bottle if you continuously reuse it  and this thalate has some carcinogenic  potential it has liver carcinogen  potential and also it decreases sperm  count and another thing is if you expose  this pet bottle in sunlight it gets hot  so in this hot temperature these  plastics release little bit of dioxides.  these dioxides are a very important  chemical in causing breast cancer so  that is why the warning is written on  these bottles please remember to not use  it again just crush it after one time  use.the recycle number for this pet  bottles is three.

Reusable Plastic Bottles:

Next is reusable  plastic bottles now there is a catch  here there are two types of reusable  plastic bottles one is made up of  polycarbonate. polycarbonate has BPA Biphenyl A and you can see in many bottles  coming with a label BPA free Biphenyl A  free the reason is BPA is carcinogenic  also it has it is estrogenic it induces weight gain, obesity, early puberty, premature birth, miscarriages, diabetes,  fertility problem behavioral problems  and even prostate cancer. 

So BPA is proven to be a very bad  chemical for our body and  bottles made up of polycarbonate  contains bpa remember that so it is not  safe to use see the recycle number for  polycarbonate bottles is 7. so the  recycle number 3 and 7 should not be  used instead there is another type of  bottle this is actually a tupperware  bottle.

This tupperware and many other  types of  hard plastics they come with a different  make which is BPA free and it is made up  of three chemicals high density  polyethylene, low density polyethylene  and polypropylene the recycle number for  polyethylene is two and four, the recycle  number for polypropylene is five.

So the  plastics with recycle number two,four or  five that is polyethylene or  polypropylene it doesn't have  carcinogenic potential it is safe but it  is very costly this is actually a  tupperware bottle. which is claimed to be made up of high density  polyethylene and low density  polyethylene so it is supposed to be  safe of course i am not marketing for  this product there are many other  products in the market same like this  you can buy any variety but it should be  BPA free and it should have a recycle  number of two, four or five.

Plastic Food Boxes:

Similarly the  food products which are coming in this  temporary food boxes so it should be  immediately disposed see these  polystyrene boxes  immediately after getting the food in  home you have to empty the box so don't  keep the food in this box for long time  that itself is not good because styrene  is irritated it cause skin irritation, eye irritation and it can cause  respiratory problems so it should be  immediately destroyed even the food  should be immediately transferred to  another container , glass container and  this it should be disposed of never use  it again to store food.

Food storage boxes:

Then what about  these food storage boxes now we should  if there is a catch here even the same  tupperware or any other company who  claim to be BPA free or sometimes use  polycarbonate so you can ask the company  directly or you can see the product  label and then you decide which way  whether to use this box or not because  microwave safe or oven safe that is not  at all correct the thing is it can  have it might have polycarbonate plastic  with a recycle number of seven.

So you  have to be careful that i cannot  guarantee because there are many  products so many products in the market  i cannot guarantee you have to check  yourself whether the recycle number of  the plastic used is 2,4 or 5 or it is  3 or 7 so that you have to decide.

My Recommendation:

Ultimately my recommendation is very  simple all these fed bottles you can use  for one time you can dispose it off the  recyclable bottle it should be bpa free  and it should not be made up of  polycarbonate it should be made up of  polyethylene or polypropylene and there  is a catch here even these plastic  bottles can contain even a per liter  even these bottles can contain about 10  000 micro plastics in one letter.  microplastic means particle size of less  than 5 millimeter plastics will be there  inside the water. which may not be  visible to the naked eye sometimes so  there is a possibility even in the  highest quality water bottles we can see.

So you cannot actually avoid  plastic all together and we cannot  guarantee that it is fully safe even  with this bottle so remember that always  it is better to use a stainless steel  bottle what about storing the water in  the jug no that also i won't advise  because it is not bpa free it is made up  of polycarbonate definitely i won't  recommend so i hope this article on  plastics is useful for you.

Remember the  recycle number two, four or five and forget the recycle number three and seven.

Kindly share this side effects of  plastic water bottle information to your friends and families who are drinking water in plastic bottles