bottled water

Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous plastic fragments: study

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A new study has found that the average water bottle contains almost a quarter of a million fragments of ‘nanoplastics’ – plastic particles so small they could potentially eat away at the machinery of human cells. The findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) open a troubling window into … Read more

Scientists find about a quarter of a million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water

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The average liter of bottled water contains almost a quarter of a million invisible pieces of tiny nanoplastics, which are detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long thought there were many of these microscopic pieces of plastic, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their … Read more