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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure that's correct, but 5 mm being the upper cap doesn't mean they're that long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I guess the author has just googled "define microplastics"... but when we think about microplastics in our drinking water we're not thinking about 5mm pieces of plastic.

A consumer grade filter will remove things larger than 0.0005mm.