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First sentence, "Tap water nano/microplastics (NMPs) escaping from centralized water treatment systems are of increasing global concern, because they pose potential health risk to humans via water consumption." This article is focused on micro plastics in human consumption not the environment.
Oh, I see now. We only care about the humans now, not the environment we literally depend on?
The entire ecosystem is intertwined...
Let's say it this way:
Microplastics in your body are bad, so if you know how to reduce your intake, you know how to be healthy longer, which allows you to keep fighting the good fight for the environment longer. Would be a shame if you die of cancer due to plastics while some oil baron stays healthy due to only drinking tea.
You should care about this, you don't have to choose between your/human health and the environment when deciding on what to care for. Nobody only cares about humans, but saying "Microplastics can be removed (for human consumption) by boiling" is still good news to most people.
Is there anything saying microplastics are bad? I mean we and everything is full of them. What about food the food we eat is full of it so seems like a waste.
In some studies Mircroplastics seem to be linked to skin cancer. And while no food will truly be 100% free of it, I believe like toxins, they build up each level of the food chain (Bio-accumulation). So eating big carnivorous fish like Tuna may be less healthy than beef which is less healthy than a vegan diet, but most research on Bio accumulation seems to be focused on marine life.