Know About Micro and Nanoplastics in Water

Image Source : Google 11/1/2024 Author: Shivam

A recent study found that bottled water has more microplastics than estimated earlier.

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An average 1 litre bottled water contains around 240,000 detectable plastic fragments.

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Micro and nanoplastics are small fragments of plastic which are different in size.

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Microplastics are of size less than 5 millimteres and nanoplastics are less than 1 micrometer.

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Researchers were able to find nanoplastics by testing water samples with lasers.

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They found microplastic for 10% and nanoplastics for the other 90% in the water sample.

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Researchers said that its difficult to avoid this kind of nanoplastic exposure.

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