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The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time.
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A new technique reveals that the liquid may contain 10 to 1000 times more plastic pieces than previously thought
Plastic water bottles contain hundreds of thousands of floating microscopic plastic particles that have caused cancer, new research has found.
A bottle of water can contain a quarter of a million pieces of plastic, a study has found.
New research reveals that a liter of bottled water contains an average 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health impact is unclear.