Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

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By Joseph WintersJan 9, 2024, 2:53 pm203 pts
At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the…

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