Leaving plastic water bottles in your car during summer is a bad idea—and not just because chemicals from the material can leach into your water when it gets too warm out. A plastic bottle of water ...

Is it true that you should not drink from plastic water bottles left in a hot car? Microplastics — plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters — are in our food, water, clothing, personal care ...

Studies show that leaving plastic water bottles in hot environments, like a car, causes them to release billions of microplastic particles and harmful chemicals into the water. Heat and UV exposure ...