Why you should avoid drinking water in plastic bottles

Cancer, Alzheimer's, Arthritis, Sterility, Obesity or Diabetes. More and more scientific studies report the harmful effects of plastic on health. However, according to data from Ecologistas en Acción, 30 million plastic bottles a day are consumed in Europe. 100 million worldwide. "Drinking bottled water in plastic not only damages the body and health," says Klavdija Grm, director and head of marketing for Flaska, the Slovenian company that has created a reusable glass bottle. He adds: "We have a problem in the oceans, in landfills. Plastic is a material that does not degrade overnight." Although more and more brands are betting on packaging water in glass bottles - , Artesian 22 or Solan de Cabras, among others -, the truth is that in the hall of liquids of any supermarket, plastic continues to reign. The motives? Lack of awareness and marketing. "We are within a capitalist system and, here, what goes cheap comes quickly in the market," explains Grm, while warning of the high price of products bottled in this material: "We have tap water at home. However, many prefer to buy it packaged and pay up to 270 times more. "

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