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There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics from Your Drinking Water

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

A greater concentration of NMPs was removed from samples of hard tap water, which naturally forms a build-up of limescale (or calcium carbonate) as it is heated. The team behind this latest study wants to see more research into how boiled water could keep artificial materials out of our bodies – and perhaps counter some of the alarming effects of microplastics that are emerging. "Our results have ratified a highly feasible strategy to reduce human NMP exposure and established the foundation for further investigations with a much larger number of samples," write the authors.

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