People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
https://www.wired.com/story/people-who-drink-bottled-water-on-a-daily-basis-ingest-90000-more-microplastics-per-year/
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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 253d
Paywall. But also genuinely curious, is 90,000 micro plastics in a year a lot? Are there levels where we start to be more concerned? How does this compare to other sources of ingestion?
I need to look back into this, back when I first did there weren't a lot of links to actual poor health outcomes, but I feel like I've seen some articles since which suggested that was the case.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 253d
"Key findings include the annual ingestion of 39,000–52,000 microplastic particles by individuals, with bottled water consumers ingesting up to 90,000 more particles than tap water consumers."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425018643?via=ihub
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 253d
all these articles dont really tell the technical detail of what they are writing, 90k particles of what? molecules, weight?
BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 253d
90000 of what? Kilograms?
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 253d
Particles!!!!
humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 253d
Can you convert that to kilograms?
Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Micro plastics are measured in micro kilograms