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Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
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Scientists find about a quarter million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water

by Seth Borenstein Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainThe average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers...