Filtering drinking water can remove microplastics. (After boiling)

FTFY

instructions unclear drinks boiling water

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?

Been doing this for years. Boil a gallon, let it cool, put it through charcoal filter. And my water is also hard so the boiling helps precipitate a lot of the minerals out. BTW Brita filter cartridges can be refilled if you drill a hole in the top, dump it out and replace with activated charcoal. This also saved my heart because when I got the minerals out, I stopped having angina.

i can see it now...

conservatives fascists; 'hey, heres a nifty 300$ filtration system you can install that will automatically boil and filter on your behalf, american made!'

democrats conservatives; ' we have a guarantee by all major manufactures who can spell plastic to join a committee to potentially reduce plastic use by 4% over the next 75 years! until they, boil your shit. '

progressives democrats; 'no regulation says whhhhhat?'

This...

This is exactly how we got into this mess

People don't like consuming pieces of plastic, so we'll break it down into pieces so small they can't be detected!

I can't wait to freak out about teeny-plastics in 2045 and hear about how they're poisoning my balls and brain

Pre-emptive edit:

Yes, I'm aware that the article says the heat causes calcium to crystalize around the plastic then needs filtered out. If you believe heat that high isn't causing very very small (and undetactable) pieces of plastic are coming off...