{"id":251312,"date":"2024-05-20T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/bottled-water-is-full-of-microplastics-is-it-still-natural\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:46:18","slug":"bottled-water-is-full-of-microplastics-is-it-still-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/bottled-water-is-full-of-microplastics-is-it-still-natural\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled water is full of microplastics. Is it still &#8216;natural&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Is bottled water really \u201cnatural\u201d if it\u2019s contaminated with microplastics? A series of lawsuits recently filed against six bottled water brands claim that it\u2019s deceptive to use labels like \u201c100 percent mountain spring water\u201d and \u201cnatural spring water\u201d \u2014\u00a0not because of the water\u2019s provenance, but because it is likely tainted with tiny plastic fragments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Reasonable consumers, the suits allege, would read those labels and assume bottled water to be totally free of contaminants; if they knew the truth, they might not have bought it. \u201cPlaintiff would not have purchased, and\/or would not have paid a price premium\u201d for bottled water had they known it contained \u201cdangerous substances,\u201d reads the lawsuit filed against the bottled water company Poland Spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The six lawsuits target the companies that own Arrowhead, Crystal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/accountability\/bottled-water-microplastics-natural-evian-poland-spring-arrowhead-crystal-geyser-fiji-lawsuit\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is bottled water really \u201cnatural\u201d if it\u2019s contaminated with microplastics? A series of lawsuits recently filed against six bottled water brands claim that it\u2019s deceptive to use labels like \u201c100 percent mountain spring water\u201d and \u201cnatural spring water\u201d \u2014\u00a0not because of the water\u2019s provenance, but because it is likely tainted with tiny plastic fragments. Reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":251313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bottled water is full of microplastics. 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