TLDR: Calcium binds to the microplastics making them easier to filter. You have to boil > cool > filter. Works better with hard water.
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Wouldn’t this also just put a lot of them into the air? We know both nano and micro forms can be found in atmosphere, so it would seem this would displace a portion from the water into the air via steam, no?
binds to calcium… becomes particulate large enough for filtration
I get that part, but that can’t be the entire volume of everything in the water.
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Except you’re ignoring the part where we’ve captured microplastics in our atmosphere at various levels including upper.
Microplastics can be carried by water vapor alone.
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/7/863 https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/microplastics-impact-cloud-formation-likely-affecting-weather-and-climate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723008094
Plenty of more sources that definitively state that nanoe and microplastics ride on water vapor and can be captured in atmosphere.
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That is not at all what my point is.
You’re asserting that a body of water that has microplastics wouldn’t emit them via steam from boiling water, and I just provided you with sources saying that microplastics are present in the water vapor of our atmosphere…meaning they are light enough to be carried in water vapor…steam is water vapor.
You’re then trying to assert that microplastics are lighter than air, which they are not. Nano plastics who even knows, but your secondary follow-up makes no sense because the former is true from the links I provided.
Been doing this for years. Boil a gallon, let it cool, put it through charcoal filter. And my water is also hard so the boiling helps precipitate a lot of the minerals out. BTW Brita filter cartridges can be refilled if you drill a hole in the top, dump it out and replace with activated charcoal. This also saved my heart because when I got the minerals out, I stopped having angina.
i can see it now…
conservativesfascists; ‘hey, heres a nifty 300$ filtration system you can install that will automatically boil and filter on your behalf, american made!’democratsconservatives; ’ we have a guarantee by all major manufactures who can spell plastic to join a committee to potentially reduce plastic use by 4% over the next 75 years! until they, boil your shit. ’progressivesdemocrats; ‘no regulation says whhhhhat?’This…
This is exactly how we got into this mess
People don’t like consuming pieces of plastic, so we’ll break it down into pieces so small they can’t be detected!
I can’t wait to freak out about teeny-plastics in 2045 and hear about how they’re poisoning my balls and brain
Pre-emptive edit:
Yes, I’m aware that the article says the heat causes calcium to crystalize around the plastic then needs filtered out. If you believe heat that high isn’t causing very very small (and undetactable) pieces of plastic are coming off…
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