Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of plastic bits: study

Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2024

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said Monday. Using a recently invented technique, scientists counted on average 240,000 detectable fragments of plastic per liter of water in popular brands - between 10-100 times higher than pri