Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water ...
One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Amy Goldstein Photography In January Phoebe Stapleton, ...
Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to a new review of research that calls for urgent regulatory measures to ...
A cup of tea rarely feels like a complicated thing. Hot water, dried leaves, a few minutes of steeping, and a habit repeated in kitchens and offices all over the world. But one part of that routine ...
The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study. The peer-reviewed study, the first to test ...
Scientists studying how tiny particles of plastic affect our everyday lives say that the amount of nanoplastics found in bottled water is between 10 to 100 times higher than researchers had previously ...
New research reveals that a liter of bottled water contains an average 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health impact is unclear.
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious ...