The bottled water industry has challenged recent findings by Columbia University that its product contains hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous “nanoplastics” (plastic particles small enough to enter human cells). In a statement to The Hill, an industry trade association urged people to stay calm (and continue drinking bottled water) while scientists develop a more… Read More »
A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter of a million pieces of “nanoplastics”; The plastic particles are so small they could potentially glue the machinery of human cells. The findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provide a disturbing window into… Read More »
The average liter of bottled water contains almost a quarter of a million invisible particles of tiny nanoplastics, detected and classified for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists have long predicted that there are large numbers of these microscopic pieces of plastic, but they never knew how many or what kind… Read More »
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers discovered that bottled water sold in stores may contain 10 to 100 times more pieces of plastic than previously estimated; The nanoparticles were so small that they could not be seen under a microscope. Experts say nanoplastics, which are one-1000th the width of an average human hair, are small… Read More »
New research has found that the amount of nanoplastic in disposable water bottles is much higher than previously believed. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press) It seems scientists are finding plastic wherever they look: from ice in Antarctica to newborn babies’ first bowel movements. Now researchers are finding that the amount of microscopic plastic floating in… Read More »