
2024-01-19
Water is a necessity of life. But the plastic particles floating in bottled water? Not so much.
Testing the waters
Researchers from Columbia and Rutgers universities did a study on bottled water. They found that a one-litre bottle of water contains about 240,000 microscopic plastic particles.
Most of the particles were too small to see with the naked eye. The team developed a special imaging technology to measure them.