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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics
(www.livescience.com)
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Somehow, it feels worse if it is an aerosol.
I read the article. Apparently it only really works with hard water - that's water with a high concentration of calcium carbonate. At high temperatures, the calcium carbonate becomes a solid, trapping the microplastics inside it, which is then removed from the water with a regular filter.
So, the boiling doesn’t remove it at all; it pre-treats hard water, making it capable of being filtered out afterwards.
uh... it seems like it.. if that is the case, the whole article is misleading at best.
Would that just mean boiling water and then filtering it?
If so, doesn't seem as misleading so much as just missing an extra step for a headline. Edit: of course, in addition to the hard water specification.
gotta make the water hard too, doesn't work without hard water
But I can't even make myself hard 😭
too soon.
Many regions won't need that of course :)