Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water
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Image caption: About 10 to 100 times more nanoplastics than microplastics, which are slightly larger, were discovered in bottled water, the study found. Image credit: Joel Saget via Getty Images. Article by Seth Borenstein, AP. HuffPost – January 9, 2024. Original article: AP News. Research article: PNAS.
The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers […]
