Plastic particles from water bottles can kill pancreatic cells and cause diabetes, study finds

Previous research links tiny plastic particles to a range of adverse health conditions but largely stops short of ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

No expensive filters or advanced technology—this is the real, homemade method for removing microplastics from water, according to science (and it’s almost free)

They are literally everywhere. And no, we are not talking about Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo with their never-ending ...
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Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics, new study shows. How can you avoid them?

Plastic water bottles contain particles that may be dangerous to your health. Here's what to know. (Getty Images) Scientists from Columbia University are raising alarm bells about the amount of small ...
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The microplastics in your water bottle: Should you be worried?

That Sip Just Got A Lot More Complicated Research published in January 2024 found that a liter of bottled water contains ...
Earth.com

Farm waste can be transformed into powerful water filters

Biochar made from corn cobs can remove microplastics and ammonia from water, offering a low-cost, reusable filter made from ...
People

What This Scientist Says You Need to Know About Hundreds of Thousands of Plastic Particles in Your Drinking Water (Exclusive)

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...
New York Post

Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought: study

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...
Mother Jones

Bottled Water Contains 240,000 Plastic Particles per Liter, Study Finds

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A paper published Monday used a novel technique to analyze one-liter samples of ...
OPB

Researchers find a massive number of plastic particles in bottled water

Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of ...
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Rising Waters Q&A: There's microplastic everywhere. What can you do about it?

The Rising Waters team regularly receives questions about flooding, sea-level rise and climate change impacts. This week, readers asked us to explain the best way to remove microplastic from drinking ...
NBC New York

Bottled drinking water contains a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles, scientists find

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 ...
Grist

Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...