Does Your Bottled Water Contain Nanoplastics?

Advances in technology demonstrate that we are consuming more plastic particles in bottled water than past analyses showed. It was the size of the particles that made the difference.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Using new technology, researchers were able to more accurately detect single nanoparticle plastics smaller than 100 nanometers (nm) and found concentrations that ranged from 110,000 to 370,000 particles per 1 liter of water

• This was far higher than the 2018 estimate that found an average of 325 microplastic particles per bottle; the tech…