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If you’d like to learn more about plastic pollution, I recommend listening to Plastisphere. Plastisphere is a podcast created by Anja Krieger to talk about plastic pollution in the environment. It consists of 17 episodes with her most recent episode being a listening session with Baldeep Kaur who studied the afterlives of discarded colonial technology. This podcast is free to listen to on SoundCloud, Apple podcast, and even Spotify. https://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/

Listen to the first episode here!

People use plastic water bottles every day in their life, but is it really safe to drink from?

There have been scholarly researches that explain how water quality changes in plastic bottles due to drastic changes in temperatures. The water in plastic bottles would have an increase in fluorine and chloride because of the thin package from plastic bottles. While it is hard to change habits of drinking through plastic water bottles, people should start to try drinking through filtered tap water instead. 

National Geographic also made an article about how plastic bottles may become unsafe when exposed to extreme heat. (Click on here to link)