Boiling Water May Help Remove Up to 90% of Microplastics
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"Boiling And Filtering water..."
as stated in the article-- it's not only boiling. Boiling results in plastics being coated by minerals-- at which point they can be filtered out via a filtration medium.
"Boiling hard water that’s rich with minerals — such as calcium or magnesium — creates a chalk-like residue known as limescale, or calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which can trap the plastics.
That solid, chalky residue then had to be separated and removed from the water with a standard coffee filter or stainless steel filter, thereby removing NMPs.
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Tea, coffee, beer. Classic safe drinks.
With french press the coffee is retrained by a filter but it wont be a fine one.
* Boiling hard water that’s rich with minerals — such as calcium or magnesium — creates a chalk-like residue known as limescale, or calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which can trap the plastics.
That solid, chalky residue then had to be separated and removed from the water with a standard coffee filter or stainless steel filter, thereby removing NMPs.
The team found that the impact was greatest in harder water: In samples that had 300 milligrams of CaCO3, for example, nearly 90% of NMPs were removed.
In softer water samples with less than 60 mg of CaCO3, roughly 25% of NMPs were removed.*
Tough for city people and those who bought water softeners. Go figure.
https://www.aquasana.com/under-sink-water-filters/claryum-2-...
I admit I'm too lazy to fill the pasta pot with filtered water, so we're not 100% filtered, but it's better than nothing.
Just get a standard filter housing and it'll work just as well and you can pick any filter you want.
For example the KX 06-250-10-GREEN costs 1/4 as much and lasts 5 times as long. So basically costs 1/20th as much as the one you linked.
If you want even better microplastic performance pair it with a ceramic filter like the CRE-1, which removes even smaller microplastics than the carbon ones do.
Never buy a non-standard filter housing, they are never better and cost far more. In fact they cost so much more, throwing it in the trash and buying a standard housing will still save you money!
If this is a major enough concern to be worth spending some cash on, you can get much better water filters than the Brita that will filter out surprisingly tiny particles and get the vast majority of microplastics.
It is quite a cheap investment for most HN types. Over 5 years with filter changes it will cost less than your Netflix.
> Results indicate the presence of microplastic fibers in the samples after RO process. In particular, irregular shaped microplastic were detected and identified by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analyses in attenuated total reflectance (ATR-FTIR) as alkyd resin (modified polyester) commonly used in paints. This microplastic detection was attributed by the authors to the occurrence of some membrane defects or simply small openings between pipework, indicating the necessity to ad-hoc design the processes for microplastic removal.
They didn't provide any quantative measurements, and the remaining microplastics were attributed to filter defects/leaks, which could affect any type of filtration. I think your conclusion ("not really") is off-the-mark.