Okay - newsflash. Microplastics are everywhere already. In the water you drink from tap. In the wild caught (or farmed) fish you eat. Soon we’ll be told they are also present in the fruits and vegetables we eat, maybe even in milk and eggs! Pretty sure meat and chicken already contain them to varying degrees.

So yeah, sure, there are microplastics in drinks in glass bottles. But to say they contain “more” microplastics than plastic containers sounds like the BS concocted by packaging lobby.

Here’s a fun fact: did you know that a good RO system can filter out most microplastics from the tap water, but it also releases some (of its own) into the filtered water! We really dug ourselves into a big hole by using plastics for just about everything.

I suppose if the paint is the issue, glass bottles using the swing top metal hinge and rubber stopper method are fine?

So let's use cork to plug all containers. We can then worry about microcork instead. I'm pretty sure that would be safer and more sustainable.

I don't get this. If paint is causing the problem, why not just stop painting the caps.

This is a great finding by a public health organization which will result in simple changes in industry that benefit everybody. For us believers in government it's important to highlight public wins amid all the cynicism.

Do we know how much (sub-)microplastics floats around in the atmosphere? Does it have a greenhouse effect?

This is a misleading, half backed, and click bait "finding".

They didn't even identify if problem is the glass or stuff like pains around the glass.

This article/study seems like FUD that was written squarely by the plastics industry. I think the lesson here is to use better bottle caps.