Road Trip Alert: Here’s What Happens When You Leave a Plastic Water Bottle in a Hot Car

Plastic and heat don’t go well together. Thanks to thermal expansion and something called polymer chains, heat causes plastic to soften and chemicals to degrade. When this happens, harmful chemicals like antimony, BPA, and BPS are released as nanoparticles and even microplastics. The most common way that travelers deal with this type of chemical leaching […]