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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics (www.livescience.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Probably for a very long time...we live in a very remote area...in the wilderness of Maine...our county has never allowed commercial development...the only things here are camps/cabins/homes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

There is microplastic in Antarctica. Unless your well feeds on an ancient aquifer instead of groundwater it will still be contaminated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure microplastics have even been detected in rainwater.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

for... now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No Washington, D.C. anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ow never mind haha. I thought you lived there in the past. lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

No worries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But what about the counties upstream of you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Maine doesn't really have anyone "upstream".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I don't believe that's how aquifers work.