I just passed a coworker who had a coke that was nearing the point of explosion. I joked that I feared for her life. She saw that I had re-filled a plastic soda bottle (the same kind she had in her hand that was fizzing up) and said that refilling them with water is actually dangerous. She knew enough to say that plastics #7 and #1 were susceptible to leaching of plastic into bottles.
I googled around and found sites such as this one.
The claims all stem from the notion that a bottle in less than perfect condition will have small lesions that leak plastic. But when in the history of mankind has a bottle shipped from halfway across the country then filled into a vending machine which drops it 4 feet ever been in good condition? Wouldn't that make all bottles have this issue?
Is there any merit to this? Surely ATOT has debunked this, if it is debunkable?
Meanwhile I'll drink from my coffee mug which no doubt has caked on carcinogens from millions of cups of a drink made from the pitted, roasted, pounded, ground center of an unpalatable fruit.
Edit: Yep, it's pseudo-science. Now I just have to figure out the coworker's name so I can email her the link.
I googled around and found sites such as this one.
The claims all stem from the notion that a bottle in less than perfect condition will have small lesions that leak plastic. But when in the history of mankind has a bottle shipped from halfway across the country then filled into a vending machine which drops it 4 feet ever been in good condition? Wouldn't that make all bottles have this issue?
Is there any merit to this? Surely ATOT has debunked this, if it is debunkable?
Meanwhile I'll drink from my coffee mug which no doubt has caked on carcinogens from millions of cups of a drink made from the pitted, roasted, pounded, ground center of an unpalatable fruit.
Edit: Yep, it's pseudo-science. Now I just have to figure out the coworker's name so I can email her the link.
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