[Pharmwaste] Plastic fibers found in tap water
Catherine Zimmer
zenllc at usfamily.net
Wed Sep 6 16:47:11 EDT 2017
Hi Maia and all,
Whatever the exposure route for humans, no doubt we will ultimately find a
way to minimize it. I am much more concerned about biological systems, e.g.
the Plankton, at the start of the food web who are taking up plastic
microfibers or other creatures that are and will be impacted.
Also, its not just the fibers, but the chemicals that adhere to them.
Very truly yours,
Catherine Zimmer, MS, BSMT
Executive director, <http://www.hearrtmidwest.wildapricot.org/> HEARRT
Midwest
Principal, Zimmer Environmental Improvement
Improving processes, minimizing and managing waste and, reducing costs.
T: 651.645.7509
<mailto:zenllc at usfamily.net> zenllc at usfamily.net
From: Pharmwaste [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf
Of Mcguire,Maia Patterson
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 2:39 PM
To: Catherine Zimmer; 'Kara'; 'the List Pharmwaste'
Subject: Re: [Pharmwaste] Plastic fibers found in tap water
Given that microplastic fibers are in the air, swallowing them in drinking
water is probably the least of the ways that they get into our bodies...just
sayin'....
I have also tested tapwater and bottled water and found occasional fibers,
although at the time that I was doing that, I was using a method for
identifying fibers as plastic that we now know gives false positives with
cotton fibers, so I cannot be sure that the fibers I found then were
plastic. I will probably run additional tapwater samples now :)
Maia
Maia McGuire, PhD
UF/IFAS Extension Florida Sea Grant Agent
150 Sawgrass Road
Bunnell, FL 32110
386-437-7464
http://stjohns.ifas.ufl.edu/sea/seagrant.htm
http://facebook.com/NEFLSeaGrant
www.plasticaware.org
Educational videos at
<https://mail.ufl.edu/OWA/redir.aspx?C=54a2647a36d04f60ac673c2d6ed6342d&URL=
http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fuser%2fIFASCDistrict>
http://www.youtube.com/user/IFASCDistrict
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From: Pharmwaste <pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us> on behalf of
Catherine Zimmer <zenllc at usfamily.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:23 PM
To: 'Kara'; 'the List Pharmwaste'
Subject: Re: [Pharmwaste] Plastic fibers found in tap water
Hi Kara and all,
Here's another article from PRI:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-05/if-youre-drinking-tap-water-youre-con
suming-plastic-pollutants
This is horrible news.
Very truly yours,
Catherine Zimmer, MS, BSMT
Executive director, HEARRT Midwest
<http://www.hearrtmidwest.wildapricot.org/>
Principal, Zimmer Environmental Improvement
Improving processes, minimizing and managing waste and, reducing costs.
T: 651.645.7509
zenllc at usfamily.net
From: Pharmwaste [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf
Of Kara
Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 12:36 PM
To: the List Pharmwaste
Subject: [Pharmwaste] Plastic fibers found in tap water
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap
-water-around-world-study-reveals
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