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Bottled water contains 100 times more plastic nanoparticles than previously thought (www.euronews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Stapleton said she now relies more on filtered water at her home in New Jersey.

But study co-author Beizhan Yan, a Columbia environmental chemist who increased his tap water usage, pointed out that filters themselves can be a problem by introducing plastics.

“There’s just no win,” Stapleton said.

Oh, man.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

But the filters introduce way way fewer.plastics...?

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