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OPINION – Nanoplastics Are Dangerous — And They Are In Your ‘Pure’ Bottled Water

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Times

Is anyone really surprised to learn that bottled drinking water is loaded with tiny bits of plastic? The bottles are, after all, plastic. So are the caps. It stands to reason that microscopic bits of the stuff get into the water inside during bottling or packaging, or while sitting in storage. A 2018 study found as much.

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Bottled Water Is Safe? Research Reveals Alarming Findings

/in , , /by /The Economic Times

One liter of water, equivalent to two standard-size bottled waters, contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles. These particles belonged to seven different types of plastics, with 90 per cent identified as nanoplastics and the remaining as microplastics, the details were found in a study, as per a report.

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