My wife is pushing for one of these very expensive home water treatment/filtration systems, but it all feels like a scam to me. No one I know has one, so turning to random strangers on the internet for opinions.

Edit: We’re on city water in a decent area. No well water. It’s more about removing the chlorine and microplastics than anything.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Why is removing the chlorine important to your wife? Why does she think a filter won’t introduce more microplastics than it removes? Is the entire filter system plastic free? (The answer to that is "no. ")

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      4 days ago

      You are only partially correct. The systems have plastic in them, but that’s nowhere in any way a guarantee they’re adding more plastic than they’re removing. At all.

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        3 days ago

        Just as there is no evidence that microplastics actually cause any disease. Remember when we were kids and loved to chew on lead blinds?

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        4 days ago

        Ok, but where the evidence it’s actually removing more than it adds? You won’t get a study like that from the company selling them.

        Also where’s the study on OPs city water showing the level of Microplastics?

        I’m not claiming anything, I’m asking the questions of OP they should be asking with their wife.

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          4 days ago

          Where is the study reinforcing your claims?

          You can say, “I’m not making a claim of my own” all you want, but you are!