Almost all drinking water is contaminated

Various kinds of plastic got almost all the water in the world.

In our world, so many things made of plastic, which is not surprising as everywhere it has penetrated. A large part of the plastic garbage is in the ocean, about 8 million tons annually. And now it turned out that these wastes were found in drinking water. Researchers from the company Orb Media tested samples of tap water around the world and found that almost everywhere it is contaminated with microplastics.

In the US the level of pollution higher, there were contaminated 94% of the samples. The world average, the figure is around 83%.

The microplastics are microscopic plastic fibers, which are formed when a break up larger pieces of plastic. Some of these fibers are in our water for decades and eventually broke up into even smaller shares. Another source of micro-plastic is washing machines that produce hundreds of thousands of fibers per wash cycle.

It is unclear how this threat of microplastics to people, but it is very likely. He absorbs toxic chemicals, and they can be released into the human body. Also, these particles can become a conduit for pathogenic bacteria, but precisely associate of microplastics with some problems of human health experts not yet.

So how to avoid plastic in the drinking water? It seems that I can’t yet. It’s too small, it does not take filters, is almost all water sources are polluted because of the microplastics found even in bottled water.

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