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At the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, samples collected from the tropical Indian Ocean were examined by scientists by making use of a new technique for the extraction and identification of microplastic particles gathered from water samples.
Plastic particles were found in the blood of nearly 80% of the participants in a new study
A team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that plastic particles from our day-to-day lives such as water bottles, grocery bags, toys and disposable cutlery, among others, can end up in our bloodstream in detectable levels.
Micro plastics now the health implications are largely unknown but just to give an idea of the scale of this issue ten years ago the world drank two hundred twelve billion liters of bottled water now the latest figures show that this number has nearly doubled now the biggest market is china last year consumers there spent thirty seven billion dollars on bottled water united states was next was twenty three billion dollars and third place was mexico now it's a global business with many players the french company the no one is the largest share it's followed by coca-cola and the swiss food giant...
States was next with twenty three billion dollars and in third place was mexico and it's a global business with many players the french company down norna has the largest share it's followed by coca-cola and the swiss food giant nestle because you must appear to be drinking more than just water. most people think of water is clean and pure but research by the nonprofit organization corporate media suggests that the bottled kind often contains microscopic plastic particles. researchers analyzed bottled water from a total of nineteen locations in nine different countries the results came as a su...