Is the plastic in bottled water hurting us or is that just hype?

Good question. My brother in law and I both have plastic degrees and we argue constantly. I am a recycler and he isn't so I am the smartest...lol. We had this conversation again a couple months ago. I do NOT put plastic containers in the microwave with food in them as I feel plasticizer leaches into food...same with pop/H2O bottles. I flipped out last summer when a local large chain grocery store had a pallet of H2O bottles all stacked up in front of the store in the heat and SUN. The plastic degrades in the sun, so what keeps it from leaching toxins into the H2O? I have seen what heat does to different plastics and I am sorry, but I do not believe once it goes from a fluid form while forming to a solid that it does not effect what is in it....but this is just my opinion.

who knows the answer, every time we turn around something is good for you, then a year later it is bad. i don't drink much out of plastic, but think about it, alot of things we buy are in plastic bottles. scary.