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by franckl 741 days ago
Fyi you can get a stainless steel under sink RO system for less than 200usd on amazon, no plastic piping either.
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I would be wary of using a stainless steel RO system. Extremely pure water tends to leach more. You may avoid a bit of plastic in exchange for heavy metals. Stainless steel tends to be 10% Nickel, 10% Chromium, which are bad and worse for you. If you do so, I would recommend getting the water tested.

Otherwise I would recommend a good plastic RO system. One where the plastic doesn't leach loads of harmful plasticizers.

Do the filters introduce microplastics?
Mind dropping a link? I'm searching and not finding anything without plastic tubing.