“Immeasurable” rate of microplastics in countex and hepa waters, according to Mediapart – RTS.CH

“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. Nevertheless, ” reacted Nestlé Waters in the evening with AFP. However, “All our waters can be safe.”

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

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

Harmful effects on health. fauna and flora – "immeasurable" rate microplastics countex hepa

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 contributed with the world 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 drilling “immeasurable” rate microplastics countex hepa then bottled under the brands Contrex and Hépar.

Substantial degradation

Mediapart is based in particular on an investigation by the French Biodiversity Office (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 particles of microplastics per liter (MP/L) for Contrex, and 2096 for hepar, 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 2952 times higher than average rates in the water tables in the world, according to other studies. These rates are also higher than those found in other bottled waters by researchers.

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

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