Luckily I have well water...probably some of the cleanest water on Earth...I've tested it several times with kits.
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You tested it for microplastics? They're everywhere. Even on top of mountains
For now.
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.
There is microplastic in Antarctica. Unless your well feeds on an ancient aquifer instead of groundwater it will still be contaminated.
Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic debris measuring less than 0.2 inches (5 millimeters) long,
That can't be right. There sure ain't 5mm pieces of plastic in my drinking water. 0.05mm would be hard to believe.
Not sure that's correct, but 5 mm being the upper cap doesn't mean they're that long.
I guess the author has just googled "define microplastics"... but when we think about microplastics in our drinking water we're not thinking about 5mm pieces of plastic.
A consumer grade filter will remove things larger than 0.0005mm.
Sadly, that is the definition of microplastics. I’m not sure why a 5mm piece is considered „micro“
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.
Could instead reverse osmosis remove those particles and be used as consumer products?