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2. Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics, new study ...

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   A 2018 study found that tap water has fewer microplastics than bottled water, making it a likely better bet. Filtering your water is another possible way to decrease microplastics in drinking ...

3. Scientists Urgently Warn: Stop Drinking Bottled Water - AOL

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   2. Plastic Bottles Can Leach Microplastics. Roughly 10% to 78% of bottled water samples contain contaminants, including microplastics. These are often hormone (endocrine) disruptors, and they're ...

4. Microplastics are choking our waters. Could a sponge ... - AOL

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   They’re in bottled water, human placentas and breast milk. These tiny plastic particles choke wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and threaten human health – and they are notoriously difficult to ...

5. Microplastics and human health - Wikipedia

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   Ingestion is one of the primary pathways of MNP exposure due to the omnipresence of these particles in food, beverages, and drinking water. Studies show that MNPs are detected in a variety of consumables, including drinking water, [14] [15] beer, [16] honey, sugar, [17] table salt, [18] [19] and even airborne particles that settle on food.

6. Bottled water packed with nanoplastics, study finds - AOL

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   One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as ...

7. LifeStraw - Wikipedia

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   Use of LifeStraw. The original LifeStraw is a plastic tube 22 centimetres (8 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) long and 3 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter. [8] Water that is drawn up through the straw first passes through hollow fibres that filter water particles down to 0.2 µm across, using only physical filtration methods and no chemicals.