Boiling tap water before use can remove at least 80 per cent of the tiny, potentially harmful plastic particles it contains. Nano and microplastics (NMPs) are pieces of plastics like polystyrene, ...

(The Hill) — Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling it, a new study suggests. Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds ...

Share on Pinterest Boiling tap water could effectively remove a significant percentage of the microplastics in it. Image credit: Tim Robberts/Getty Images. Microplastics — tiny particles in the air, ...

Boiling and filtering tap water, researchers suggest, could reduce concentrations of microplastics by more than 80 percent. Ervins Strauhmanis via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Microplastics have become a ...