title: Bottle Biology: An Idea Book for Exploring the World Through Plastic Bottles and Other Recyclable Materials
author:  Mrill Ingram 
description: Bottle Biology: An Idea Book for Exploring the World Through Plastic Bottles and Other Recyclable Materials
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  OCTOBER 28, 2020 AT 6:28 PM
  STUDY: Babies Drink Over a Million Plastic Particles
  Per Bottle
  Warming and shaking milk in plastic baby bottles releases 16 million microplastic particles into every
  liter of milk
  A new study reveals the horrifying fact that babies who drink milk or formula from heated plastic bottles are
  consuming millions of tiny pieces of plastic every day.
  The amount of plastic babies consume from heated bottles dwarfs the amount humans consume from any
  other known source.
  Previous research has estimated adults consume between 39,000 and 52,000 micro-plastic particles per
  year. The new study, published last week in Nature Food, finds babies fed with plastic bottles are ingesting
  as many as 4 million micro-plastic particles per day.
  In the process of warming and shaking your baby’s bottle, you release millions of microplastic particles
  (fragments less than 5 millimeters long) and perhaps trillions of nanoplastic particle