Parents object to metal water bottle ban at private school

Citing wellness concerns, a radical of parents has written to R.S. Junior Modern School astatine Humayun Road, cardinal Delhi, seeking revocation of the announcement banning metallic h2o bottles and permitting lone integrative ones.

“The argumentation dictates that children indispensable portion h2o regular from integrative bottles, creating a pathway for micro-plastics exposure, which exposes them to avoidable and perchance serious, lifelong wellness risks,” reads a January 16 missive that was besides sent to the Directorate of Education (DoE).

The parents said that technological studies person recovered that integrative bottles tin merchandise microplastics, particularly erstwhile utilized repeatedly, worn down, oregon exposed to heat.

The schoolhouse did not respond to requests for comment.

Last October, the schoolhouse issued a announcement to parents, allowing lone non-metal bottles successful schoolhouse to “ensure the information of the students”. “Please enactment that if a alloy vessel is brought to school, it volition beryllium taken into safekeeping,” the announcement read.