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.
Somehow, it feels worse if it is an aerosol.
I read the article. Apparently it only really works with hard water - that’s water with a high concentration of calcium carbonate. At high temperatures, the calcium carbonate becomes a solid, trapping the microplastics inside it, which is then removed from the water with a regular filter.
So, the boiling doesn’t remove it at all; it pre-treats hard water, making it capable of being filtered out afterwards.
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.
Luckily I have well water…probably some of the cleanest water on Earth…I’ve tested it several times with kits.
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.
You tested it for microplastics? They’re everywhere. Even on top of mountains
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)
