Bottled Water Contains 100 Times More Plastic Particles Than Previously Thought

New research shows that every liter of bottled water contains 240,000 pieces of microplastic.

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the stuff.

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