Beehaw
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@beehaw.org )  to Science · 3 years ago

Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

www.livescience.com

external-link
message-square
48
link
fedilink
147
external-link

Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

www.livescience.com

ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@beehaw.org )  to Science · 3 years ago
message-square
48
link
fedilink
Tiny plastic particles float inside tap water, and it's still unclear how they impact our health. But boiling the water for 5 minutes could remove most of them, a new study finds. most of them
  • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    3 years ago

    Luckily I have well water…probably some of the cleanest water on Earth…I’ve tested it several times with kits.

    • Kalkaline  ( Kalkaline@leminal.space ) 
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      3 years ago

      For now.

      • seathru ( seathru@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        ·
        3 years ago

        At least until the fracking crews come.

      • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        3 years ago

        Probably for a very long time…we live in a very remote area…in the wilderness of Maine…our county has never allowed commercial development…the only things here are camps/cabins/homes.

        • andrai ( andrai@feddit.de ) 
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          21
          ·
          3 years ago

          There is microplastic in Antarctica. Unless your well feeds on an ancient aquifer instead of groundwater it will still be contaminated.

        • Treevan ( Treevan@aussie.zone ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          deleted by creator

        • QualifiedKitten ( QualifiedKitten@kbin.social ) 
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          3 years ago

          I’m pretty sure microplastics have even been detected in rainwater.

        • Shdwdrgn ( Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ) 
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          3 years ago

          But what about the counties upstream of you?

          • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            3 years ago

            I don’t believe that’s how aquifers work.

          • chaogomu ( chaogomu@kbin.social ) 
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            3 years ago

            Maine doesn’t really have anyone “upstream”.

        • melroy ( melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          3 years ago

          No Washington, D.C. anymore?

          • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            3 years ago

            ???

            • melroy ( melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 years ago

              ow never mind haha. I thought you lived there in the past. lol

              • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                3 years ago

                No worries.

        • FunkyMonk ( FunkyMonk@kbin.social ) 
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 years ago

          for… now.

    • P1r4nha ( P1r4nha@feddit.de ) 
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      3 years ago

      You tested it for microplastics? They’re everywhere. Even on top of mountains

      • stembolts ( stembolts@programming.dev ) 
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        3 years ago

        The Marianna Trench contains microplastics. (not a meme)

        The eggs of all newly born children contain microplastics. (not a meme)

        But this person’s water-well. Free and clear. I think the key is this their well is outside of the environment. (meme)

Science

science

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !science@beehaw.org

Studies, research findings, and interesting tidbits from the ever-expanding scientific world.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Space

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:

  • https://lemmy.ml/c/science
  • https://mander.xyz/c/science

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 13 users / day
  • 53 users / week
  • 246 users / month
  • 1.12K users / 6 months
  • 3.27K local subscribers
  • 16.3K subscribers
  • 1.37K Posts
  • 6.03K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Chris Remington ( remington@beehaw.org ) 
  • alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) 
  • Gaywallet (they/it) ( Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) 
  • BE: 0.19.15
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code