Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 20:55     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
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Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


This is such a STRANGE argument. There are many ways to die, so don't worry about wearing a seatbelt!

There are things you can control and things you can't. You can buy quality products for your kids that at least don't make things worse. The sense that a problem is overwhelming doesn't mean you shouldn't bother doing anything.


OP is already using a stainless steel water bottle. She is specifically looking for one that does not contain plastic in the CAP. If that is a worry you have that you feel compelled to post about, you clearly have a problem free life. You seriously think a plastic cap is going to move the needle on your health?


I don't think anything about plastic caps, I think saying that there are plastics everywhere, so don't bother making minor changes in your consumer habits to minimize the amount of plastic in your life, is mystifying.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 20:50     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Plastic is everywhere clowns
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 20:43     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


This is such a STRANGE argument. There are many ways to die, so don't worry about wearing a seatbelt!

There are things you can control and things you can't. You can buy quality products for your kids that at least don't make things worse. The sense that a problem is overwhelming doesn't mean you shouldn't bother doing anything.


OP is already using a stainless steel water bottle. She is specifically looking for one that does not contain plastic in the CAP. If that is a worry you have that you feel compelled to post about, you clearly have a problem free life. You seriously think a plastic cap is going to move the needle on your health?


And you must have an extra *super* problem free life if your biggest problem is that you are annoyed by people who are seeking to minimize plastic.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 20:30     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


Don't forget clothing, furniture, bedding, etc. Polyesters etc. are the biggest source of microplastics for everyone. They are spewed into the air in enormous amounts everytime one uses a dryer or vacuum.

Globalists are trying to use plastic in everything now.

OP, glass bottles with cork stopper is what you seek.

Even aluminum cans and stainless containers are lined with plastic now.


Agreed, plastics are literally everywhere. All we can do is try and find things that are primarily made of glass, metal, or natural fibers. Even then there is still likely plastic involved.

A completely plastic free lifestyle is virtually impossible. Just take the small steps that you can and realize that perfection is unattainable.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 20:18     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


This is such a STRANGE argument. There are many ways to die, so don't worry about wearing a seatbelt!

There are things you can control and things you can't. You can buy quality products for your kids that at least don't make things worse. The sense that a problem is overwhelming doesn't mean you shouldn't bother doing anything.


OP is already using a stainless steel water bottle. She is specifically looking for one that does not contain plastic in the CAP. If that is a worry you have that you feel compelled to post about, you clearly have a problem free life. You seriously think a plastic cap is going to move the needle on your health?
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 18:56     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
My kids use YETI which I like because it’s stainless, large volume and dishwasher safe.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 18:51     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


This is such a STRANGE argument. There are many ways to die, so don't worry about wearing a seatbelt!

There are things you can control and things you can't. You can buy quality products for your kids that at least don't make things worse. The sense that a problem is overwhelming doesn't mean you shouldn't bother doing anything.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 18:47     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Found one on Amazon for DS. Stainless steel with a silicone drinking straw/spout. Has a plastic cover but not a big deal.


Silicon isn’t any better than plastic


Actually, silicone is much better than plastic. It is much more thermally stable and has neither BPA nor any of the other hormonal plastics.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 17:38     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:Hydroflask is my favorite


Same. I don’t know what a chug cap is. Ours are all the regular width screw cap. If there were a stainless cap with silicone to stop leaks, I’d buy it in a heart beat.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 17:23     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


Do you have any science t9 share or just assumptions?


Are you blind? Plastic is all around
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 16:47     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Hydroflask is my favorite
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 16:31     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:How did this even start, where kids and teens need to have water or whatever drink available instantly and constantly?


Sometime in the early 2000s.

In the 1990s it was only expensive flex stuff like Evian and Fiji that anyone bought. A way to signify one had money. People made fun of anyone in normal society carrying around a water bottle.

In the 1980s it was "mineral water" that was all the rage with rich yuppies. Nobody bought regular water then.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 16:28     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just give up. Seriously. Plastics are all around and in everything


Stop acting like it’s so hard to take an extra 5 min before buying things.


Ok, but it won’t make a difference. Plastic is in chewing gum, your teens’ Starbucks/boba cups, any takeaway food you get, just about all grocery store items, deli, meat packaging have some element of plastic. Restaurants and any where you are buying prepared foods, even high end, all use plastic bulk containers for packaging and use various plastics for cutting boards and food storage. So yeah, worrying about the plastic top to a metal water bottle is dumb and pointless.


Don't forget clothing, furniture, bedding, etc. Polyesters etc. are the biggest source of microplastics for everyone. They are spewed into the air in enormous amounts everytime one uses a dryer or vacuum.

Globalists are trying to use plastic in everything now.

OP, glass bottles with cork stopper is what you seek.

Even aluminum cans and stainless containers are lined with plastic now.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 16:28     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
Kleen Kanteen has a fully metal bottle
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 16:25     Subject: Water Bottles and Minimizing Microplastics
I worry about asteroids more than micro plastics. I don’t worry about asteroids.

Moms on this forum are elite level hypochondriacs.