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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics
(www.livescience.com)
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That can't be right. There sure ain't 5mm pieces of plastic in my drinking water. 0.05mm would be hard to believe.
Not sure that's correct, but 5 mm being the upper cap doesn't mean they're that long.
I guess the author has just googled "define microplastics"... but when we think about microplastics in our drinking water we're not thinking about 5mm pieces of plastic.
A consumer grade filter will remove things larger than 0.0005mm.
Sadly, that is the definition of microplastics. I’m not sure why a 5mm piece is considered „micro“