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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] Mkengine@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could instead reverse osmosis remove those particles and be used as consumer products?

[โ€“] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Yes to the first, as for the second, who knows, but most likely not, as it'll be mixed plastics and you can't just mix them all together and make something out of them