“immeasurable” microplastics in counterx and hepar waters

A magistrate in charge of the preliminary survey against Nestlé Waters discovered pollution rates at “immeasurable” microplastics in countex waters and Hépar revealed Médiapart this Saturday, August 9. Moreover, The owner of the mineral water marks defends itself.

Pollution rates at “immeasurable” microplastics have been found in countex. Moreover, hepar waters, according to the magistrate in charge of the preliminary investigation in the context of prosecution against Nestlé Waters concerning wild landfills of polluting waste in the Vosges, Mediapart revealed on Saturday 9 August.

“All the analyzes carried out by laboratories accredited for the search for microplastics contradict the hypothesis of the presence of microplastic pollution in our boreholes. Therefore, ” reacted Nestlé Waters in the evening with AFP. “All our waters can be safe.”

Nestlé Waters is continued for storing waste. maintained four wild landfills in Contrexéville, They-sous-Montfort, Saint-Ouen-les-Parey and Crainvilliers, representing a “immeasurable” microplastics counterx hepar waters cumulative volume of 473,700 cubic meters, the equivalent of 126 Olympic pools.

“Harmful effects on health. flora and fauna” – "immeasurable" microplastics counterx hepar waters

The trial, decided after an investigation by the regional environment center of the Nancy prosecutor’s office, will be held from November 24 to 28.

Nestlé is notably prosecuted to have. around these discharges, “allowed to flow in the superficial and underground waters” of the “particles of microplastics” at concentrations “making any aquatic life impossible and having harmful effects on health, flora and fauna”.

The information from Mediapart. which has contributed with Le Monde and Radio France to revelations on the illegal treatments used in the past by Nestlé Waters on its waters, indicate that the plastic discharges “are (originally” high levels of microplastics found at the exit of water boreholes then bottled under the brands Contrex and Hépar.

“Substantial degradation” – "immeasurable" microplastics counterx hepar waters

Mediapart is based in particular on an investigation by the French Biodiversity Office “immeasurable” microplastics counterx hepar waters (OFB). the Central Office for the Combat against Environmental and Public Health (OCLAES).

“An encrypted analysis illustrates that the proportions are immeasurable with regard to the introduction of microplastics in the Vosges soils by Nestlé to the places of discharges. on land and water located downstream,” said the magistrate in charge of the investigation, according to Mediapart, alerting to “their harmful effects on human health”.

The rates detected are 515 microplastic particles per liter (MP/L) for countex, and 2,096 for hepar, or concentrations 51,000 to 1.3 million times higher than those found in lakes, rivers and rivers by two studies on which the investigators are based.

And from 5 to 2,952 times higher than average rates in the groundwater of the world, according to other studies. These rates are also higher than those found in other bottled waters by researchers.

Nestlé Waters defends herself

“The degradation is substantial in that they “immeasurable” microplastics counterx hepar waters are fragmented in micro. even nanoplastic, impregnated and diffused in soils and groundwater networks, so that no depollution is possible,” add the investigators.

Contacted by Mediapart, Nestlé Waters says “that no pollution is proven under environmental analyzes shared with the authorities”.

According to the company, the discharges incriminated date from the 1960s, before it owns the polluted land.

The group told AFP not to comment on the procedures in progress but that “the majority of the sites” had. already been cleaned. “We await the recommendations of the authorities regarding the remediation measures to be implemented for the remaining sites with a more complex profile. ” he adds.

No rate regulation

Mediapart indicates that it has consulted a confidential note in which Nestlé Waters said in 2022. that the discharges could have “an impact on water quality”.

Microplastic levels in natural mineral waters are not regulated.

These substances less than five millimeters -. 1,000 times less “immeasurable” microplastics counterx hepar waters for nanoplastics – are at the heart of the negotiations in progress in Geneva until August 14 to try to develop the first against plastic pollution.

Omnipresent in the environment and. therefore, inhaled or ingested daily, their effect on human health is far from being decided, but many studies show that they accumulate in the blood, the organs and the nervous system.