Oh great! More personal responsibility for the actions of oil execs and corporations.
We're literally going back to serfs boiling water to make it drinkable.
I'm a liberal sorry https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water
Article has:
every cracker article is like this
5x longer than it needs to be
Compare:
A greater concentration of NMPs was removed from samples of hard tap water, which naturally forms a build-up of limescale (or calcium carbonate) as it is heated. Commonly seen inside kitchen kettles, the chalky substance forms on the plastic's surface as changes in temperature force the calcium carbonate out of solution, effectively trapping the plastic fragments in a crust.
Even in soft water, where less calcium carbonate is dissolved, roughly a quarter of the NMPs were snagged from the water. Any bits of lime-encrusted plastic could then be removed through a simple filter like the stainless steel mesh used to strain tea, the researchers say.
to my edit:
more NMPs were filtered from hard water than soft, because the limescale in hard water naturally accumulates on NMPs, making them bigger and easier to filter.
ok I just found out there actually was a study link, on the caption of the 2nd picture
most of the time these articles never even include it, but even this one could just be linked at the very top
There was a microplastics article a year ago which warned people not to drink rainwater due to the microplastics in the air (made no mention of how that compares to natural MP concentration in tap water)
Secondary science sources are often shit.
I read the primary source awhile ago and the methods in the paper aren't very practical or effective unless you have very hard water in your area. It can be built up on and improved, but better alternatives exist for most people.
Use a reverse osmosis system if you are really worried about it.
So plastic manufacturers will use this tech to remove microplastics from water right?
It's really fucked up too because soda companies have the technology and resources to clean the water. If they wanted to. It's nothing short of evil to be able to undo this damage, and it's even worse when they're the ones responsible. Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Nestlé. They used every legal resource to take water from people only to sell it back in toxic containers made by slave labor.
Yeah but just think of the revenue CEOs are making. Doesn't that make you feel better?
Purpose of my life. I work hard so they can play hard! '#blessed '#LivingMyBestLife
It's fine Elon Musk is going to solve climate change.
Someone I know said this almost verbatim a couple years ago
We're all gonna get cyber trucks and when those cyber trucks all hit 88 miles an hour it'll activate all their flux capacitors and take the climate back in time. It's simple science
Jk (if elon musk were designing it it would actually be 69.420 miles an hour)
global energy usage intensifies
Wait if I boil it does that help? I don't want any cancer or whatever
EDIT: was a bit crass, but the question is sincere
EDIT 2: I googled and found the article, it's not a bit,
Does boiling it even help or are they talking about boiling as a step in distillation
Reverse osmosis filter for your water. I know it's bougie, but it costs like 30 bucks a month to rent one from Culligan. I fill up every container I can all the time and even make ice cubes out of them. It removes all solids from the liquid. Unfortunately you don't get any minerals though.
overcoming capitalism
The simple and effective means of keeping the world's water pure has been known for many years, and can be easily constructed at home using nothing more than a wooden frame, a wicker basket, some lengths of rope and a nice heavy blade.