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agotterer parent
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 OP
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).

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