US EditionThere's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics in Drinking Water
Researchers found boiling tap water and filtering precipitates can remove up to 90% of microplastics, offering a simple household method to reduce human exposure.
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More Microplastics Have Been Found in Drinking Water — Here’s How Health Pros Recommend Hydrating Better
Hydrate without a side of microplastics.AmazonYou know how the term “microplastics” seems to be everywhere lately? Well, so too are microplastics themselves — the microscopic particles really are everywhere, including our drinking water. According to researchers, a whopping 83% of the global water supply contains some level of microplastics now, including the most surprising of places, like fresh Antarctic snow. The news is not good, folks.As a …
Microplastics (less than 5 millimetres) and nanoplastics, of much less sizes, are increasingly occurring in the human body, especially through food, sugar and water. Due to their inflammable dimensions, nanoplastics can cross essential biological barriers, including the intestinal barrier. According to recent discoveries, they can reach into blood, then being transported to different organs. People of science have constantly drawn attention to t…
Plastic fragments now infiltrate our organisms via food and drink. Faced with this silent contamination, Chinese researchers identified in 2024 an accessible solution: to boil water from the tap and then filter it. This rudimentary approach proves to be terribly effective in ridding the liquid of its unwanted particles. Experiments carried out on different ... Read more The article A surprising domestic method for removing microplastics from dri…
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