Scientists Discover Way To Remove Roughly 90% Of Microplastics In Water By Boiling It

The following report is by Eurek Alert!, with some additional citations from the published study:

Nano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil and the air. While many creative strategies have been attempted to get rid of these plastic bits, one unexpectedly effective solution for cleaning up drinking water, specifically, might be as simple as brewing a cup of tea or coffee. 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.

Drinking boiled water apparently is a viable long-term strategy for reducing global exposure to NMPs. Drinking boiled water, however, is often regarded as a local tradition and prevails only in a few regions.

Our results have ratified a highly feasible strategy to reduce human NMP exposure and established the foundation for further investigations with a much larger number of samples.