A simple way to get microplastics out of your water [View all]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/28/microplastics-drinking-water/

A simple way to get microplastics out of your water

New research found that boiling drinking water can remove up to nearly 90 percent of microplastics

By Maggie Penman
February 28, 2024 at 8:15 a.m. EST

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In a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, Zhanjun Li and Eddy Y. Zeng report that boiling and filtering water helped remove up to nearly 90 percent of the tiny plastic particles, which they write can be found in 129 of 159 tap water samples from 14 countries worldwide.

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What they found was dramatic — especially in “hard” water, or water with large concentrations of minerals like calcium and magnesium. At high enough temperatures, calcium carbonate (which is commonly found in tap water) will become solid, effectively encapsulating or “encrusting” the plastic particles, and making them easy to remove through a simple filter, such as a coffee filter.

…more… let water cool five to ten minutes before filtering… boils also kills virus, bacteria, etc….