There’s a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics From Drinking Water

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-drinking-water

by Oldfolksboogie

8 comments

  1. I wish this sub would allow users to add their own sub- heading, or Reddit would allow pinned comments by posters – I’d hate to think I was promoting this nonsense when I’m posting this specifically because I hate everything about it.

    FTA: *The research team hopes that drinking boiled water might become a more widespread practice as plastics continue to take over the world.*

    Perfect. Like carbon sequestration tech, this “strategy” mistakes the symptom for the problem. It suggests an unsustainable practice can be addressed by harm reduction instead of ending the unsustainable behavior, and even more galling than carbon removal schemes, seeks only to reduce harm to humans, the rest of the water-dependent biosphere be dammed.

    BOO!

  2. I feel thats just plastic lobbies try to justifie their work and make it seems easy to handle microplastics. Ok i admit thats a conspiracy but thats how i feel like

  3. Boiling? Nah.

    Granular activated carbon, reverse osmosis, and distillation are the methods that work best. However when even those filtration systems are made of plastic, it just becomes a vicious game of cat and mouse.

  4. Oh, that’s why we’re trying to boil the oceans? Good thinking guys, gotta get the mps out of our food chain too!

  5. Wouldn’t boiling the microplastics increase their release of BPAs into the water? It seems like this might be swapping one evil for another.

  6. But the plastics won’t go “away”. There is no “away” for things that are hardly/if ever biodigradable. This is a bandaid on a chopped of leg.

  8. Don’t support the plastic creation industry by drinking bottle water. Grab a good water filter if worried that your municipality isn’t doing a good job. No clue about why boiling plastics would be a good thing either in the water or not. I’d skip that part unless I lived somewhere with the potential for dangerous microorganisms in the water supply.

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