Single-use plastic water bottle Bottled water in virgin PET
Single-use plastic water bottle
Bottled water in virgin PET
The most direct plastic exposure we measure: virgin single-use PET that sheds micro and nanoplastics straight into the water you drink. A refillable steel bottle replaces hundreds.
A format-level entry and our worst-case reference. Single-use bottled water in virgin PET that sheds micro and nanoplastics directly into the water you drink, on top of heavy single-use plastic waste.
How this score breaks down
Strengths
- Convenient and portable
Trade-offs
- Single-use virgin PET
- Peer-reviewed research finds about 240,000 plastic particles per liter shed into the water, roughly 90% nanoplastics
- A refillable stainless steel bottle replaces hundreds of these
Scored on our consumables method (consumables-v1). How we rank →
What's inside
A format-level reference: bottled water in single-use virgin PET. Peer-reviewed research finds the bottle sheds micro and nanoplastics into the water itself, with roughly 240,000 particles per liter measured in a 2024 study, about 90% of them nanoplastics.
| Part | Material |
|---|---|
| Bottle | Virgin PET plastic, single-use |
| Cap | Plastic (HDPE or PP) |
| What you ingest | Micro and nanoplastics shed from the bottle into the water |
- Packaging
- Virgin PET, single-use
- Microplastics
- Sheds micro and nanoplastics into the water you drink. A 2024 peer-reviewed study measured roughly 240,000 plastic particles per liter of bottled water, about 90% of them nanoplastics small enough to enter the bloodstream.
Attributes
What this product is, at a glance.
About Single-use plastic water bottle
Single-use PET water bottles are a leading source of plastic waste, and peer-reviewed studies have measured microplastics and nanoplastics shedding from the bottles into the water itself.
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