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That can't be right. There sure ain't 5mm pieces of plastic in my drinking water. 0.05mm would be hard to believe.
Sadly, that is the definition of microplastics. I’m not sure why a 5mm piece is considered „micro“
Not sure that's correct, but 5 mm being the upper cap doesn't mean they're that long.
I guess the author has just googled "define microplastics"... but when we think about microplastics in our drinking water we're not thinking about 5mm pieces of plastic.
A consumer grade filter will remove things larger than 0.0005mm.