Plastic and Water

Plastic bottles are made of oil and other substances such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polycarbonate. In overtime period of time if water remains in those plastic bottles won’t that effect the water inside? Believe it or not it does affect the water! Harmful toxins eventually go on the loose by all the chemicals provided to manufacture the plastic bottle. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) releases chemical called antimony, as it is claimed by geochemists in Germany. (1) I went further, looking for what antimony embodies and this is my encounter: (2) "Uses of Antimony: Used to harden lead alloys. Also used in solder, bearings, lead batteries, mascara, infrared detectors, plastics and chemicals. " "Additional Notes: Antimony used to be used to provoke vomiting, but the medical dose was too close to the fatal dose. Small does stimulate metabolism, but large doses cause liver damage and can kill. " Scary, I would say! Just take a look at the resourceful website. The polycarbonate plastic bottle also releases a damaging toxin which is the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). A study made by senior investigator Karin B Michels, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and colleagues, discovered that people who drank from polycarbonate plastic bottles in a week of investigation, had two-thirds of BPA in their urine. Other concerns are that BPA has been linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans, among other things. (3) Right now you must be in a great deal of astonishment as probably some of this information was new to you. Additionally, most of these plastic bottles are not recyclable making mountains of garbage because it is indestructible material. Somehow, all of this doesn’t make any sense. Why are we humans inventing things that are destroying us? Are there any other alternatives to hold our water safely? Of course there is. (1) http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2006/02/bottled_water.asp (2) http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Sb.html#Names (3) http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/151156.php .