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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics (www.livescience.com)
submitted 8 months ago by ZeroCool@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org
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[โ€“] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These fucking clickbait titles.

It only really works with hard water, otherwise you'd have to add calcium to the water before boiling it, and they only tested it with something like 3 different plastics, and they're the most benign and least reactive ones.

This is not a magical solution to clean any water you boil.

[โ€“] Mkengine@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Could instead reverse osmosis remove those particles and be used as consumer products?