Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Bottled water packed with nanoplastics, study finds
If particulate matter in the air smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) is
inhaled, it penetrates deep into the lungs, increasing the risk of health
problems like heart disease and asthma. So, what will happen if we take in
small particles like microplastics from water? Microplastics are polymer
fragments smaller than 5 millimeters, and nanoplastics are less than 1
micrometer in size or about 1,000th of a human hair. Nanoplastics
are small enough to migrate through the tissues into the bloodstream. New
research found that there are as many as 240,000 micro and nano plastics in a
liter of PET bottled water. Some of them come from leakage of the plastic
bottle and others are created each time the bottle is opened, closed, or
crushed. So, if you regularly consume PET bottled drinks, your body is accumulating
tiny plastic particles that go into the bloodstream, then to organs and the
brain. Doesn’t this sound scary?
Read the article and learn about what nanoplastics could do to our
health.
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