# Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/scientists-find-about-a-quarter-million-nanoplastic-particles-in-bottled-water/
- Published: 2024-01-18T10:00:17-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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 […] Click here to view original web page at www.huffpost.com