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Study shows boiling drinking water can remove microplastics (thehill.com)
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TLDR: Calcium binds to the microplastics making them easier to filter. You have to boil > cool > filter. Works better with hard water.

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't this also just put a lot of them into the air? We know both nano and micro forms can be found in atmosphere, so it would seem this would displace a portion from the water into the air via steam, no?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Except you're ignoring the part where we've captured microplastics in our atmosphere at various levels including upper.

    Microplastics can be carried by water vapor alone.

    https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/7/863 https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/microplastics-impact-cloud-formation-likely-affecting-weather-and-climate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723008094

    Plenty of more sources that definitively state that nanoe and microplastics ride on water vapor and can be captured in atmosphere.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    That is not at all what my point is.

    You're asserting that a body of water that has microplastics wouldn't emit them via steam from boiling water, and I just provided you with sources saying that microplastics are present in the water vapor of our atmosphere...meaning they are light enough to be carried in water vapor...steam is water vapor.

    You're then trying to assert that microplastics are lighter than air, which they are not. Nano plastics who even knows, but your secondary follow-up makes no sense because the former is true from the links I provided.

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