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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics
(www.livescience.com)
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Disturbing that micro plastics evaporate!
So if we just boil the ocean...
It doesn’t. Please read the article.
The oil industry is doing all they can!
Well, not boiling, but we do heat it up
It bonds with calcium but then they don't say why it's not an issue anymore. Does it become a super stable particle? I don't fully get it.
They say filter out the calcium