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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As far as I know, off the top if my head, there are not any affordable, attach to the tap in your sink type filters that actually filter out microplastics.

I may be out of date on that, been about 2 years since I last looked at filters... but yeah, afaik, we have no idea how to effectively filter out microplastics from water at an end user standpoint, as we do for other, older, mkre commonly worried about water pollutants.

... I guess if you fully boiled all your water to the point it is all steam, and then condenses back ti water, in a glass or metal recepticle, that might do something for reducing microplastics, but that is insanely energy and time intensive.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Regular boiling is pretty good! The micrplastics end up sticking to the calcium deposits left behind. Never been so happy for that stupid white buildup in my kettle!

"As reported in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters, boiling and filtering calcium-containing tap water could help remove nearly 90% of the nano- and microplastics present."

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2024/february/want-fewer-microplastics-in-your-tap-water.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=As+reported+in+ACS%27+Environmental%2Cthe+nano-+and+microplastics+present.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck, that's good news.

Kinda funny that the tried and true 'works good enough' method of boiling water to cleanse it also works for micro plastics.