Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

Source: https://grist.org/science/bottled-water-nanoplastics-microplastics/

Author: Joseph Winters

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than previously known: It turns out that bottled water harbors hundreds of thousands of even tinier pieces of the stuff.