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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics
(www.livescience.com)
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These fucking clickbait titles.
It only really works with hard water, otherwise you'd have to add calcium to the water before boiling it, and they only tested it with something like 3 different plastics, and they're the most benign and least reactive ones.
This is not a magical solution to clean any water you boil.
Could instead reverse osmosis remove those particles and be used as consumer products?
Yes to the first, as for the second, who knows, but most likely not, as it'll be mixed plastics and you can't just mix them all together and make something out of them
I was about to say. The headline sounds like the equivalent of removing mud from water by boiling it.
Removing fine particles by aggregating them isn't a brand new concept either, for what it's worth.