Eric Siu explains why he switched from plastic to glass bottled water after learning about microplastics. He convinced his friend Neil and family members to do the same, favoring brands like Aquapana and Mountain Valley for perceived higher quality.
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Why are we drinking glass water? Because Eric sends me these articles that go viral on social media on how I have too much plastic in my body. Yeah. Okay, guys, 1 liter of plastic over here. I'm holding a 1 liter bottle, has 250,000 microplastics in it. And who knows what that does to you, right? So it's like, I was like, Neil, what about your kids? So I'm marketing to the future, right? And then he's like, oh, damn it. And so then he buys a bunch of glass water, right? And then I keep reinforcing now. So to reinforce how I think about it, now I tell my family members, my friend members. So then it reinforces me to keep getting it, right? But the other thing is, if you're gonna buy glass water, you can't just buy regular glass water, you have to buy classy glass water, right? Or like high quality. Aquapana and Mountain Valley is perceived to be high quality.