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Plant-based filter removes up to 99.9% of microplastics from water (newatlas.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a mask version? As far as I know, the microplastics penetrate our blood brain barriers by first penetrating our lungs as we breath the flying particles in.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, the article doesn't mention anything about nanoplastics, which are far more dangerous. Nanoplastics have a larger surface area, which makes them more reactive - they can also penetrate cells, and cause damage to DNA, proteins, etc.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jeeze I sure do wish that was made up!