Cutting-edge microscopy reveals bottled water has 'up to 100 times'
more bits of plastic than previously feared
The average store-bought bottle of water contains somewhere in the
neighborhood of 10 to 100 times more minute plastic particles than
previously believed, judging from a study published this week.
We've long known about the presence of microplastic particles in
bottled water and proliferating through nature, while nanoplastics
(pieces less than a micron, or 0.001 mm) have been difficult to
accurately measure. This is where boffins at the Columbia and Rutgers universities in the US come in with a newly developed microscopy
technique to image some of the smallest plastic particles yet spotted
in our water.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/10/water_nanoplastic_pollution/?td=rt-3a
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