Okay, this is pretty horrifying.
> A new study finds that “nanoplastics” in bottled water are even more common than microplastics.People are swallowing hundreds of thousands of microscopic pieces of plastic each time they drink a liter of bottled water.
> A new paper released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found about 240K particles in the average liter of bottled water, most of which were “nanoplastics”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/08/microplastics-nanoplastics-bottled-water-study/
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