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johncole parent
Your biggest exposure is going to be water, hands down. What you store it in, how you filter it, these are going to be major sources of plastics and pfas.
foresto
Do you happen to know of any 10" water filter enclosures that are not made of plastic? I recently started looking for a two-stage one (meaning two enclosures connected in series) but haven't found one yet.
skrtskrt
Yes and PFAS/PFOS is now getting directly linked to rise in colorectal cancers.

Personally I would prioritize water filtering for PFAS over microplastics worries if you have limited budget to start changing consumption patterns.

agotterer
Agreed, already on it! I put Wedell Water filters on all of our shower heads and we have a filtration system for our kitchen sink water. I’d love to get a whole home water filter at some point.
danw1979
what’s the vector for microplastics in shower water causing you harm ? swallowing some of it or through the skin or something else ?
agotterer
Microplastics was only one of my concerns. Their “why” page does a good job explaining the benefits. https://weddellwater.com/pages/why-duo
moffkalast
Nothing says capitalism quite like a corporation polluting the entire planet with something they knew caused disease, actively gaslighted everyone involved, transferred liability to a sacrificial entity so they got zero punishment for it, and the rest of us are left to buy water filters for the rest of history if we want clean water.

3M and Dupont deserve the death penalty for it and should've been dissolved completely for crimes against humanity.

jajko
If only it would be so easy to blame it all on capitalism.

I've lived in communism and it was exactly the same. Pollution beyond any reasonable levels, testing chemistry on products and people, rules and regulations coming from government and faceless bureaucrats... The result was the same, but instead of corporate greed the reason was lack of any interest and foresight.

Well regulated capitalism is probably best equipped to deal with such. Whether ours is well equipped to deal with this is another question.

andrepd
The problem occurs whenever there aren't competent and powerful institutions working to protect the interests of the people, so indeed.

But the thing is capitalism is a tremendously powerful machine, so it's really more dangerous than an unmotivated Polish bureaucrat. The Soviets may have drained the Aral sea but capitalism has poisoned the entire planet (with TEL even before PFAS).

j-conn
Any specific products you’d recommend for this?
SchemaLoad
Reverse osmosis is pretty much the gold standard for removing PFAS. You can get countertop units for a reasonable price. Look for the lab testing or certifications rather than random anecdotes since they appear to work fine to the end user.
modo_mario
As someone new to this how do the details work? Do you need to buy a new membrane often like I imagine? Do you have any issues with your water lacking minerals? (in the same way drinking distilled water is bad for you)
SchemaLoad
The model I have says to replace the filter once a year, and it's $170 AUD. I imagine you could probably get away with using it longer than the OEM recommendation though.

I had the same thought about demineralised water, you can get more expensive models which remineralise the water after, but it looks like it's not actually that important health wise because you get the absolute vast majority of your minerals through food, not water. And remineralisation is mostly for taste rather than health. Though I don't find the demineralised water tastes bad, but if you're used to drinking hard water it might be different.

dombesz
I wonder why do you think that? According to the website, unfiltered tap water is not really bad. Am I missing something?

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