Before you reach for that plastic water bottle rolling around at the bottom of your bag, we need to tell you some seriously gross news. That thing is riddled with germs. And not just run-of-the-mill everyday atmosphere germs, but the kind of bacteria that will make you seriously sick.
According to TreadmillReviews.net, a group of UK-based researchers recently lab-tested a disposable water bottle (that, let’s be honest, are not really disposable at all because we all use way more than once) that had been used for a full week by an athlete.
Inside and outside of the bottle they found multiple bacterias thriving, 60 per cent of which were capable of making the average water bottle owner sick. One bacteria, in particular, boasted 900,000 colony forming units per square centimetre.
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We all need to be more aware of the environmental and physical impacts of chemicals. The harmful effects of the chemicals noted are also caused by chemicals in pesticides and beauty products. Think twice before you put on your nail polish - it very likely contains multiple harmful chemicals, similarly other beauty products. It surprises me that the beauty industry is not being held more accountable given the growing evidence of physical disease flowing from use of their products. Scarily, and perhaps ironically, it seems to affect fertility the most.
If you are going to reuse a disposable plastic water bottle then use one that is made for reusing and wash it. In fact you shouldn't be using disposable plastics any way!!