Er is net een nieuw onderzoek gedaan naar plastic in gebotteld water van een paar grote merken. Het toont aan dat er 10-100 keer meer plastic in zit dan verwacht. 240,000 stukjes in 1 liter water. En 90% daarvan op nanoschaal. Dat is 1000x kleiner dan de breedte van een haar. Waardoor het in onze cellen en dus in de haarvaten van al het leven terecht komt met alle gevolgen van dien.
Researchers discover thousands of nanoplastic bits in bottles of drinking water
The research, which was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, raises new concerns about the potentially harmful health effects — and prevalence — of nanoplastics. The researchers found that the quantity of such particles was 10 to 100 times greater than previously estimated.
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Ninety percent of those plastics were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics: microscopic flecks so small that they can be absorbed into human cells and tissue, as well as cross the blood-brain barrier.
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During the past several years, researchers have identified microplastics from the deepest oceanic waters to the snowy tops of the planet’s highest mountains. They’ve found it in human blood, lung tissue and in the brain, and in organisms ranging from worms and zooplankton to whales and polar bears.
8 januari 2024 – Corinne Purtill en Susanne Rust
Beter dan Hudson kan ik het niet verwoorden: We are the doomed. Mind officially blown. Carry on.
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