Is it safe to reuse plastic water bottles?
Many plastic bottles of water are treated as 'single use' by consumers, one justification being that chemicals from the plastic leach into the water over time. Yet such plastics are known to degrade incredibly slowly, lasting thousands of years. Is there any evidence that refilling and reusing 'single use' plastic bottles of water is unsafe?
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Rafael Franco has answered Likely
An expert from Universitat de Barcelona in Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Antioxidants, Nutrition, Pharmacology, Asthma, Cell Biology, Biochemistry
I do not see any problen in reusing for some time plastic bottles for water.
Reusing for long times may not be so conven ient due to partial "chemical" degradation of plastic.
For sure I would not reause much those plastic bottles left in cars under the sun as the temperature inside the car would go quite high and then degradation of the plasctic could occur soon.
Answered about 6 years ago
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