Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics so small they can invade and damage the body’s cells, study says - eviltoast
Bottled water contains thousands of nanoplastics so small they can invade and damage the body’s cells, study says | CNN
www.cnn.com
Bottled water contains millions of small particles, thousands of which are nanoplastics so tiny they can invade the body’s cells, a new study finds.

In a trailblazing new study, researchers have discovered bottled water sold in stores can contain 10 to 100 times more bits of plastic than previously estimated — nanoparticles so infinitesimally tiny they cannot be seen under a microscope.

At 1,000th the average width of a human hair, nanoplastics are so teeny they can migrate through the tissues of the digestive tract or lungs into the bloodstream, distributing potentially harmful synthetic chemicals throughout the body and into cells, experts say.

One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as nanoplastics and the rest were microplastics, according to the new study.

  • badcommandorfilename@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    But what about micro-ceramics!!

    Did you know that eating the shards of just one porcelain teapot can kill an adult walrus? Imagine what the tiny nano-shards of those ceramics might do to you!!