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ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@beehaw.org )  to Science · 3 years ago

Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

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ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@beehaw.org )  to Science · 3 years ago
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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
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    Could instead reverse osmosis remove those particles and be used as consumer products?

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      Yes to the first, as for the second, who knows, but most likely not, as it’ll be mixed plastics and you can’t just mix them all together and make something out of them

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