Water filter - so confused!

[Reastie]

Trying to find a water filter that has minimal plastic and the plastic doesn't touch the water constantly once it's filtered. I'm hoping to filter out microplastics if possible as well. I've found this here which I'd put on my Christmas list if it would filter out as many toxins etc as possible, but it's expensive and I am totally overwhelmed by it all. Dies anyone have any knowledge or recommendations?

Trying to do the same. Using Zero filter, and sitting it in a metal mesh sieve while it drains into a glass jug, beneath, because the charcoal etc seems a better option. But someone in a similar post has found a charcoal refill in paper. As you say, it is confusing.

Had joined Which in hope of finding exactly this type of information, but apparently nobody else in the world has ever heard of microplastics, nor has the least interest in avoiding them, other than those of us in this corner of Mumsnet. Therefore, the Which testers were obsessed with taste and water-softening, but nothing else.

Have not even tried to search there for plastic-free food packaging, on the assumption they assume everyone adores ingesting maximum micro/nanoplastic into their bloodstream and to accumulate in organs, above all in brains. There is something like a journalistic distaste for some areas of news, so they barely mentioned yesterday's collapse of the UN international conference to try and reduce plastic production/pollution.( Hey, who wouldn't want premature senility, and cancer, just as long as it helps out the oil industry?)

Glad it’s not just me trying to get an answer to this - it shouldn’t be this hard, surely… we can’t be the only ones! Every time I look up I just can’t find what I need and give up

Hi, I've been looking at Doulton ones, Bekley I think. My brother has one. They are UK made with ceramic filters. He's very pleased with his and feels thst he can see particles on the filter. I have a plastic brita filter and haven't been able to find a recycling scheme. At the moment my DH says 1litre is too small and 6 litres too big, so I am still looking at other alternatives and hope more people will comment here

so far, I'm using a milk (and other things) doorstep delivery with old fashioned milk bottles they take away to sterilise and refill. The caps are traditional foil. Apart from milk, they do pints of kefir. Also, kefir and yoghurt in glass jars, which they would also take back to refill.

Glass jars are useful for storage, so I decant from plastic packaging and put things in the fridge or freezer. Apparently, alas, the metal caps on jars and bottles are sprayed with plastic. So are metal tins of fish etc.,and cardboard packets, and even apparently ordinary paper bags and greaseproof (and aluminium leaks into food too) so I try to get everything in glass jars.

I have a 'zero' water filter, and prop it precariously on top of a glass jug, supported above the jug's water level by perching on a metal sieve, so I avoid using the plastic jug supplied. I have a glass kettle and removed the plastic filter from the spout, and it has a metal lid with a metal hoop, but a plastic handle and base, which don't get hot.