Study reports plastic bottles shed microplastics into drinking water
A study from January 2024 found that plastic bottles slough off over 100,000 micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) per liter of water. Even avoiding plastic bottles as a water source, water straight from the tap or from a filtration system is still contaminated with microplastics. Recent studies showed that the human body contains about a credit card amount of microplastics, on