There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics in Your Drinking Water

Tiny fragments of plastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities , particularly through our food and drink .

In 2024, scientists in China found a simple and effective means of removing them from water. The team ran tests on both soft water and hard tap water (which is richer in minerals).

They added in nanoplastics and microplastics before boiling the liquid and then filtering out any precipitates.

"Tap water nano/microplastics (NMPs) escaping from centralized water treatment systems are of increasing global concern, because they pose potential health risks to humans via water consumption," the researchers from Guangzhou Medical University and Jinan University write in their published paper.

In some cases, up to 90 percent of the NMPs were