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People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year


Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.

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