Boiling tap water before use can remove at least 80 per cent of the tiny, potentially harmful plastic particles it contains.

Every day, tiny plastic particles called nano- and microplastics find their way into your drinking water. Invisible to the naked eye, these fragments could silently threaten your health. Recent ...

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German researchers demonstrated for the first time that the procedure can remove microplastics from human blood.

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Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be found in your water, according to findings published Wednesday in Environmental Research ...

Starting at microfiltration, wastewater is sucked through microscopic holes in hollow plastic fiber. At reverse osmosis, the water is forced through holes 1,000 times smaller in tightly wound ...

Following isolated discoveries of elevated heavy metals levels in tap water at ETH Zurich in the autumn of 2024, an external report has now signalled the all-clear. However, standing water can still ...

She added that putting an end to plastic pollution could also be done by stopping imports of plastic waste into the country. “We have to turn off the tap to end plastic pollution.