Obama: bans microplastic beads
orange parasite: lifts ban on asbestos
Idiots: bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe
How dare you not share the reference in a link too!
The CaCO3 concentration where boiling was most effective (>80% of the measured polymers removed) was >120 mg/L. This is hard water, so if your local area doesn’t have particularly hard water, this method won’t be effective.
A very general guide for the US on hard water levels by state.
so that suggests you may need to add calcium carbonate to your water first.
Yes, we just need to install water hardener systems rather than softeners to boil out the plastics!
I’m curious how effective typical household water filtration systems are in comparison. I’d expect RO systems would be effective at least.
The boiling method, and using ultrasonic devices so far sound promising:
https://projectboard.world/isef/project/eaev062t-harnessing-ultrasound-for-microplastic-filtration
Neither method is 100%, and sadly even if it were, there is no way to avoid ingesting microplastics. It’s basically in all food sources at this point. Any animal, or plant have them in them, and those sources are going to be exposed to them; even rain has microplastics in it now.
I suppose the best way to actually avoid microplastics in the food chain would be growing plants in a greenhouse type environment (with dug up deep pre-plastic dirt?) only using properly treated water? For meats, I guess lab grown meat would be the way to avoid it, using plastic free (or less) sources for material?
I’ve actually been throwing out old spices in recent years, but maybe I should be saving them. Maybe they are the last vestiges of plastic free spices, and will be worth a fortune to paranoid rich people that want flavor?
Ah fuck we have NANOPLASTICS now?
Wake me when they release picoplastics
Why need to boil it? Is the tap water that bad otherwise?
The effects of microplastics(/nanoplastics) on humans aren’t fully understood yet. We mostly know that they are now everywhere, and are being linked to a number of health issues.
This article suggests that boiling hard tapwater can reduce the intake of microplastics via the formed “scale” trapping the plastic particles.
If that’s the Chinese study you also have to run it through a coffee filter.
Gotta season your microplastics with more microplastics.
so it melts the plastics into bigger pieces or what
The heat makes them more malleable so enzymes can attach and help break them down into super calories.
So the 0 calorie label on water is now a lie?
