Of all the bottles tested, only 17 were found to be free of plastic. On average, each liter sold contained 325 pieces of microplastic, including polypropylene, nylon, and polyethylene terephthalate.

This expansive graph by Online Education tells you all you need to know about bottled water, as you scroll from top to bottom. Now excuse me while I try to hide my bottle of water. Won't happen ...

Scientists using advanced laser scanning techniques found an average of 240,000 plastic particles in a one-liter bottle of water - thousands of times more particles than previously found.

We wanted to find the best bottled water out there, from Dasani to Smartwater, so we decided to try as many as we could and rank them from worst to best.

Though we're all about our reusable water bottles (and everything related to the Stanley tumbler), the love we have for fancy-shmancy bottled water is just undeniable. Despite the crisp, cold ...

Is bottled water really “natural” if it’s contaminated with microplastics? A series of lawsuits recently filed against six bottled water brands claim that it’s deceptive to use labels like ...

In 2014, University of Florida’s soil and water science professor Lena Ma conducted a study on the chemicals released in 16 brands of bottled water kept at 158 degrees Fahrenheit for four weeks.

New research finds every liter of bottled water contains 240,000 microscopic pieces of plastic — 10 to 100 times more than previously thought. Skip to content. Grist home.