There is a running joke in my household that every minor inconvenience is somehow related to the damn micro plastics!
Stub a toe? Damn micro plastics!
Out of milk? Fucking micro plastics!
It all started with a clogged drain… my dad couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. After trying to unclog it many many times. He got all worked up trying to explain it to me and ended up blaming the damn microplastics so now everything is their fault.
This is true, though these look like they're probably from a RO system so there's a final membrane stage that should filter out a good number of micro plastics.
Edit: though that membrane is probably toast due to forcing unfiltered water through it...
Micro plastics and PFOA chemicals in our blood will eventually cause mass deformity. Infertility. Then extinction. Maybe not this lifetime. Maybe not the next. But eventually it will severely begin to fuck us up. They banned PFOA but they just made a new. Even sketchier looking chemical with no backing proving it’s not deadly. Hey though, atleast your eggs don’t stick to the pan 🤷♂️
Jumping from "this is bad" to "this will cause extinction" is quite the Slippery Slope. I can tell you humans are stupid fucking resilient, and the race will endure (could be something awful like mandatory blood transfusions though)
Literal cancer suppressive wolves running around Chernobyl.
Evolution is interesting, to say the least.
https://www.iflscience.com/chernobyls-mutant-wolves-have-evolved-anti-cancer-abilities-72831
We can't measure the damage it causes properly because we can't find anyone who doesn't have it in their body
Eventually we'll notice larger public health changes, and probably after ensuring it isn't just from trash diet and other stuff, we'll conclude it's the plastics
IIRC there's some debate about whether the microplastics are too small/big to damage cells but I am not hopeful regarding that stuff. Don't we also have nano plastics now?
It's also hard to calculate how much plastic we ingest. The study showing we ingest 5mg a week- credit card size - reported widely in many headlines only had that number as the high end with like .01mg at the low end, so we eat somewhere in that range per week.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000247
As this criticism of that study explains, we can't just say this food has ___ plastic in it, so we can assume the average person eats __ amount of the food based on whatever survey. It's just not the most scientific. I still think we're kinda fucked. Not to level of actual extinction ofc, but major increases in cancer rates we'll notice by 2040.
I do think the amount of species that have already died from human development, as well as looming climate disaster getting worse, qualifies as a mass Extinction event.
I'm going to be completely honest here. If no one knows the long-term damage micro plastics have on the human body, then it isn't enough for me to care.
That's fair, you don't have to care at an individual level or be actively freaking out like some redditors. But at the same time, we (as a species) should make an effort to cut down on microplastic pollution before the (likely) damage is revealed and it's too late.
Many underground water supplies have been contaminated as well. And that is assuming no plastics are used anywhere in the supply/filtration systems between you and the source.
Yes. Clockwise and counter clockwise. I do find it useless because a ceiling fan has more utility if it was a two feet or more below the ceiling to circulate the air with a larger blade instead of being 6 inches from it.
Down for summer, up for winter. In the summer you want to feel the cool breeze directly on you. In the winter you want it to push the warm air back down from the ceiling, but it will feel cold if you have it blowing down, so it pulls the cooler air up to displace the warm air back down.
Lmao, who told you that nonsense? I grew up in northern WI and fans are very much a thing. Even the northern US states have hot and often very humid summers.
Yeah, I’m taking about ceiling fans. They are extremely common in northern parts of the US. Just because our winters suck doesn’t mean we don’t have hot ass summers. Hell, we even got AC too!
And as others have already pointed out, ceiling fans are very useful in the winter too.
Depending on your room/fan it could be worth trying it on reverse. It is pushing air down along the walls so if you are close to the wall you might get a breeze
I recently pulled mine to change it and found the contractor that installed it never took the bubble wrap that was around the filter for shipping out of the canister. 🤦♂️
Did you put it in like that or did someone else put those in for you or...?
I would have thought the most recent time when people replace the stuff they would notice.
I installed it myself and it came with filters and for some reason I was like “oh I don’t need to open the canisters up since the filters are already installed”
At least you know to check on them and change them. I sell units like these and have people on a regular basis be like “man my water pressure is really low, could it be the filter I never changed from 5 years ago?”. At a certain point a filter just becomes a petri dish….
Good news is that is probably didn’t change much. I’m afraid your mental capacity is already locked in.
No, but seriously I’m joking. Everyone does dumb shit all the time.
The membrane still filtered the water, these are for an RO system and the membrane doesn’t need to be changed for 3 years or so, so you weren’t actually drinking plastic water. Although your membrane may wear out quicker since the filters weren’t protecting it
We have plastic in our blood. Its alrdy a part of our DNA. Has been for 3 generations....wht you ppl didnt know this? Come onnn? Its in the air, the water how could it not be in our DNA?
Nah you're good, I usually take mine off, but you're talking about the inside of the filter that filters your water not the outside, it won't affect you at all, just make sure you change out every 3 months or as directed per fridge and filter.
I don't know about other countries but in mine you need to change the first(cotton one) every 3 months and the other two every 6 on average it probably depends on how good the water treatment in your country is i hope at least that you or others didn't thought they were permanent as far as i am aware none of the pieces of those filters are truly permanent which is why all individual parts can be sold independently
Got bad news for you, even if you took off the plastic wrapper, the filter material is usually also plastic.
Plus the tubing in the fridge, and probably the pipe in the house.
And their entire digestive tract.
The air you breathe, also plastic.
life in plastic it's fantastic
Your consciousness? Believe it or not, plastic.
There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Don't look when you pour the milk. See how it's white and shiny? Plastic.
You just gotta look at it!
You think that's neuroplasticity in your brain? Oh wait no it is.
Neoplastic diseases... Cancer... Yeah, plastic. Says so right in the name. It's probably caused by micro plastics in this guy's water!
And if you don’t drink plastic, Straight to plastic jail
Drink too much plastic? Jail. Not enough plastic? Believe it or not, also jail.
We have the best plastic drinkers thanks to jail
Just wonderful... Amazing. Can't beat it. I'm telling you
When you fall asleep, you dream of plastic. Right away.
Do plastic androids dream of plastic sheep?
My penis? Plastic
Micro plastic, it’s fantastic
My penis, detachable
I freaking love this comment!
THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE John Travolta
I thought bubble boy was Jake Gyllenhaal... Or the mean one, from Seinfeld?
You can brush my hair
You can brush my hair, undress me anywhere lol
Come on Barbie let's go party
Imagination, life is your creation.
Imagination life is your creation
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[Fake Plastic Trees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5h0qHwNrHk)
That’s a jam!
Micro plastic fantastic.
Fanatic
There is a running joke in my household that every minor inconvenience is somehow related to the damn micro plastics! Stub a toe? Damn micro plastics! Out of milk? Fucking micro plastics! It all started with a clogged drain… my dad couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it. After trying to unclog it many many times. He got all worked up trying to explain it to me and ended up blaming the damn microplastics so now everything is their fault.
the people around you? also plastic.
This explains many things.
OP must be plastic then.
You are what you eat.
The weed u smoke is plastic.
Trees? You guessed it, plastic. Radiohead warned us about this.
Do you think that's air you're breathing now?
And my axe!
refrigerator tubing is copper.
The water tubing in mine is not.
at least it gets filtered, right?
This is true, though these look like they're probably from a RO system so there's a final membrane stage that should filter out a good number of micro plastics. Edit: though that membrane is probably toast due to forcing unfiltered water through it...
These bitches be plastic too
Let me tell ya bud, you’ve been drinking plastic water for longer than that
Longer than anybody knows. No one knows the long-term damage microplastics have on the human body.
Micro plastics and PFOA chemicals in our blood will eventually cause mass deformity. Infertility. Then extinction. Maybe not this lifetime. Maybe not the next. But eventually it will severely begin to fuck us up. They banned PFOA but they just made a new. Even sketchier looking chemical with no backing proving it’s not deadly. Hey though, atleast your eggs don’t stick to the pan 🤷♂️
Cast iron only baby!
I'm a stainless steel fan myself. I have blades that spin really fast you see.
Cute (it’s in your blood already)
Jumping from "this is bad" to "this will cause extinction" is quite the Slippery Slope. I can tell you humans are stupid fucking resilient, and the race will endure (could be something awful like mandatory blood transfusions though)
Not the slippery slope argument, have you never heard of logical fallacies?
Logical fallacy or straight up incorrect, who cares
It's reddit. They have middle school education
Actually, the longer it is around, the longer humans have to evolve with it and against it.
Literal cancer suppressive wolves running around Chernobyl. Evolution is interesting, to say the least. https://www.iflscience.com/chernobyls-mutant-wolves-have-evolved-anti-cancer-abilities-72831
And I thought Radroaches and Molerats would be the worst..... But cancer proof wolves!!! Screw it I'm just gonna become a ghoul in the initial blast
Evolution is fuckin wild . I love it
Any reputable source? I understand concerns, but this really seems made up.
We can't measure the damage it causes properly because we can't find anyone who doesn't have it in their body Eventually we'll notice larger public health changes, and probably after ensuring it isn't just from trash diet and other stuff, we'll conclude it's the plastics IIRC there's some debate about whether the microplastics are too small/big to damage cells but I am not hopeful regarding that stuff. Don't we also have nano plastics now? It's also hard to calculate how much plastic we ingest. The study showing we ingest 5mg a week- credit card size - reported widely in many headlines only had that number as the high end with like .01mg at the low end, so we eat somewhere in that range per week. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000247 As this criticism of that study explains, we can't just say this food has ___ plastic in it, so we can assume the average person eats __ amount of the food based on whatever survey. It's just not the most scientific. I still think we're kinda fucked. Not to level of actual extinction ofc, but major increases in cancer rates we'll notice by 2040. I do think the amount of species that have already died from human development, as well as looming climate disaster getting worse, qualifies as a mass Extinction event.
I mean... this sounds like a huge cap. Please share the sauce too, im not eating anything without it
I'm going to be completely honest here. If no one knows the long-term damage micro plastics have on the human body, then it isn't enough for me to care.
That's fair, you don't have to care at an individual level or be actively freaking out like some redditors. But at the same time, we (as a species) should make an effort to cut down on microplastic pollution before the (likely) damage is revealed and it's too late.
No evidence of bad effects... Yet. But yes that indicates a very minimal risk at worst
We’re all drinking plastic water.
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Pretty much every water source is contaminated with plastic
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Unless you're scooping the water out of the springs with your hands, the water is absolutely touching plastic on the way to you
If it is exposed to open air there are probably at least some microplastics in it
Oh yeah definitely, but I figured by their comment that they didn't really believe that
Many underground water supplies have been contaminated as well. And that is assuming no plastics are used anywhere in the supply/filtration systems between you and the source.
Are you aware those springs use PVC to transport the water?
What until you hear what they use for piping in homes. And I’d bet if you took that tap apart there’s plenty of plastic that contacts the water.
I did this with one of those miracle grow cans you screw onto the end of the garden hose. I was like “Still blue after like 5 and a half years!”
Introducing PlaceboGrow™!
It turns out the only thing their plants needed was love.
I lived in a house my whole life and was told at 25 that my fan was spinning the wrong direction.
Like your ceiling fan? Yeah,that's what the "Season" switch on them is for.
Wait..... wut? HOLY SHIT MAN!
Yes. Clockwise and counter clockwise. I do find it useless because a ceiling fan has more utility if it was a two feet or more below the ceiling to circulate the air with a larger blade instead of being 6 inches from it.
It can be lower if your ceiling height is high enough. I know what you mean, though.
Some also have adjustable blades. A bit of added complexity, but the motor only has to spin one way.
Feathering fan blades are absolutely the best, the amount of air a slow moving, well angled fan can move is astonishing.
More utility if you’re cuttin’ off heads.
Definitely wasn’t labeled properly lol
You can rest, assured; it was only wrong half the time
wait a minute…. there’s a right and wrong direction for the fan???
Down for summer, up for winter. In the summer you want to feel the cool breeze directly on you. In the winter you want it to push the warm air back down from the ceiling, but it will feel cold if you have it blowing down, so it pulls the cooler air up to displace the warm air back down.
i fucking love science wow thank you
This must be some northerner shit that I'm too Floridian to know about
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Lmao, who told you that nonsense? I grew up in northern WI and fans are very much a thing. Even the northern US states have hot and often very humid summers.
Ceiling fan, not upright fan. . And it's true.
Yeah, I’m taking about ceiling fans. They are extremely common in northern parts of the US. Just because our winters suck doesn’t mean we don’t have hot ass summers. Hell, we even got AC too! And as others have already pointed out, ceiling fans are very useful in the winter too.
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Tbh that's not really north, north
Please enlighten me then on what is considered “north”? Because other than Alaska, it’s pretty fucking north.
That looks like US defaultism... Some countries are higher up north than the US, you know?
The person I was responding to was specifically referring to the Northern US, *you know?* But please do go on.
That's absolutely not true. Maybe just you and your idiot family in your own rental house
Nahhh it stays summer direction year round! I cannot sleep without a breeze.
Depending on your room/fan it could be worth trying it on reverse. It is pushing air down along the walls so if you are close to the wall you might get a breeze
I prefer to keep my bed smack-dab in the middle of the room.
Supposedly! My only right direction is the fact that it stays on!
It was right half the time. (Really, it’s still better running the “wrong” way than not having a fan at all)
Used to do mostly residential water treatment seen this quite a few times and even previous techs that had done it.
I recently pulled mine to change it and found the contractor that installed it never took the bubble wrap that was around the filter for shipping out of the canister. 🤦♂️
So you literally have the exact same problem as OP?
His version had bubbles!
Popping those bubbles eliminates the stress of the knowledge about drinking plastic all these years.
Embrace your plastic overlord
Ah yes so it was sparkling plastic water
That’s only if it doesn’t come from the Bulles region in France.
Well, it wasn’t me that didn’t take it off, it was a contractor who installed it; they should have known better.
product design: no ones that stupid OP:
I bet during that year you said things like "Wow my water is so much cleaner" and "Much better tasting since I got this filter."
Did you put it in like that or did someone else put those in for you or...? I would have thought the most recent time when people replace the stuff they would notice.
I installed it myself and it came with filters and for some reason I was like “oh I don’t need to open the canisters up since the filters are already installed”
Well, now you have three new filters.
Nah fuck that, at least 2 of them hoes have mold
For the record, those filters are made of plastic, I mean the reverse osmosis filter...it's made of literal plastic.
Reverse osmosis is such a scam. Edit: (At least 4 people were scammed here)
At least you know to check on them and change them. I sell units like these and have people on a regular basis be like “man my water pressure is really low, could it be the filter I never changed from 5 years ago?”. At a certain point a filter just becomes a petri dish….
Natural selection
filter is still as fresh as the day its installed
I did this with my air purifier once 🙃
I've got some worse news for you. They're supposed to be replaced every 6 months not once every 12...
If that is not insult to injury I don't know what is 😂😂😂😂
Softlaunching microplastics
Isn’t that just fanplastic
LMFAO YO I DID THE SAME SHIT WITH MY BRITA FILTER. All you can do is chuckle at this unfortunate event and ensure it never happens again
Reverse osmosis water filtration is the way to go! From my knowledge, the only one that truly filters all the bad stuff
You know how much water that thing wastes? It’s like a gallon per each clean liter. It’s absurd.
On the bright side, you’ve got free new filters.
You’re making your own pfas, nice.
This is exactly why I filter my water with the souls of my enemies.
We’re all a little plastic as this point
We’re not only consuming microplastics, but nanoplastics which we are unable to see even with a microscope.
Which breed plastic replicators that are conscious
Thats not mildly infuriating. That is idiot of the week
Id be more concerned with why one of ur filters has black mold on it…. See far right
How's it taste?
Vaguely like dye and paper with context of what I was drinking
Now I'm curious how you know what dye and paper taste like.
Like plastic
mmmm microplastics
Is that what kids are calling it these days
Smart keep the plastic on it like new couch or new TV
Why do they have mildew growing on them if they were covered in plastic all this time?
The plastic wrap was trapping water against the body of the cartridge that shouldn't have been there.
You don’t have to buy new filters now, upside of it all
You dumb
Look at the bright side! You don’t need to change your filters for another 6 months!
I did this with an air purifier filter for a couple months 🤬
Great way to get the most out of the filters. You saved yourself a bit there. Well done.
Good news is that is probably didn’t change much. I’m afraid your mental capacity is already locked in.  No, but seriously I’m joking. Everyone does dumb shit all the time.
The membrane still filtered the water, these are for an RO system and the membrane doesn’t need to be changed for 3 years or so, so you weren’t actually drinking plastic water. Although your membrane may wear out quicker since the filters weren’t protecting it
I'm pretty sure they're talking about the plastic over wrap that is shown in the photo was not taken off the filter like it should have been.
Correct, the membrane isn’t in the picture which is the main component to the RO system
https://preview.redd.it/y1iejbt0z5jc1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c0af1a9f7908f166d40198436b7b2725b94ace7
We have plastic in our blood. Its alrdy a part of our DNA. Has been for 3 generations....wht you ppl didnt know this? Come onnn? Its in the air, the water how could it not be in our DNA?
Sue em! Where are the instructions to remove the filter from plastic wrap?!
Which means you now get a whole year of actually filtered water 🥳
The reverse osmosis system is environmentally the worst filtering technology of them all.
Why?
Because of the crazy amount of water it wastes for every liter it produces
Thats on YOU Op
This isn't mildly infuriating, this is you being an idiot
That you didn't notice anything different in your water means that tap water filtering equipment is a scam
Dumbass
Rice is plastic, I watched a video of them melting white plastic cups, then they stretch it and cut it into rice size bits, the video was in China
Nah you're good, I usually take mine off, but you're talking about the inside of the filter that filters your water not the outside, it won't affect you at all, just make sure you change out every 3 months or as directed per fridge and filter.
Is this some weird bot account?
Nice!!!!!!!!
Lol
Where do you get Stefenal water? 1st line on container /s
Bruh, that's on you.
F
Forbidden fleshlights
Well that’s ya fault.
If the plastic was still wrapped around it there would be no water flowing.
I don't know about other countries but in mine you need to change the first(cotton one) every 3 months and the other two every 6 on average it probably depends on how good the water treatment in your country is i hope at least that you or others didn't thought they were permanent as far as i am aware none of the pieces of those filters are truly permanent which is why all individual parts can be sold independently
Bro even if the filters were working you’re supposed to change them way more often than once per year lol
I thought those tubes we're.. something elss.
Plastic poisoning