TIL boiling water can remove microplastics
TIL boiling water can remove microplastics
pubs.acs.org
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Well good thing we're well on track to boiling the ocean, the fish won't have to deal with plastic pollution for too much longer
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So the microplastics just sit in the bottom bonded to calcium carbonate?
For people to wash off into their drain successfully passing the buck to the next person?
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No, no. Pour it out on your plants
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No, no. Pour it down your pants
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Can't we just ball it up and stick it under our desk?
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Gotta chew it first to make a nice wad
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Hard water specifically. I suppose that water softening is detrimental, then. I also wonder if this means microplastics can be used to remove lead by a similar mechanism. Maybe not considering that typical Pb levels are a lot lower than Ca in hard water.
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I would assume it would just melt into the water.
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Instructions unclear. Boiled scrotum hurts. Send help.
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Dummy, the microplastics are inside the balls. You gotta inject the boiling water into your pee hole.
(Don't do this oh my God)
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Boiling water can help remove a lot of bacteria. If you aren't sure the water is safe to drink, boil it first
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*boil it for at least 5 mins
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Boil the ocean.
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Dammit there goes my idea for a microplatic tea recipe
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So, you have to apply extra energy to heat the water, and then use even more extra energy to cool the water?
Even if it eliminates the microplastics, I fail to see how this helps the environment.
Edit: What you gonna do, boil and refreeze the oceans to remove the microplastics?
Fuckoff with all that nonsense. Might as well buy a diet coke and a cardboard straw (which comes in plastic wrap), and act like you're saving the day.
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Only need to use energy to heat the water. It will cool by itself, as anyone who's ever used hot water for anything ever knows.
As others have said, not everything is about the environment, this is about public health.
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You can argue that if you're actively cooling your home, then extra energy has to go into that when the water heats up the place.
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Well where are you gonna store the water while it cools? I don't know of anyone that keeps glass bottles around anymore.
So the water is gonna end up either going into a plastic cup or bottle, totally defeating the purpose, or it can go into one of those fancy thermos bottles, which are soldered together with lead based solder.
Cute.
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First sentence, "Tap water nano/microplastics (NMPs) escaping from centralized water treatment systems are of increasing global concern, because they pose potential health risk to humans via water consumption." This article is focused on micro plastics in human consumption not the environment.
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It may reduce human intake, but I doubt it removes anything.
The plastic just won't pour out when it's burned to the heating element of the kettle or encrusted within the limestone in the water.