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The article identifies the plastic paint on metal twist off lids as the source of micro plastics in glass bottles.


Thank you.


No worries, it came as a suprise to me also .. makes sense when you think about a simple industrial process with a hopper full of bottle caps rubbing against each other, creating a cloud of particles and washing that down toward the capping station and into the bottles as they are capped.




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