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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics (www.livescience.com)
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[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Would that just mean boiling water and then filtering it?

If so, doesn't seem as misleading so much as just missing an extra step for a headline. Edit: of course, in addition to the hard water specification.

[–] But_Class_War@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

gotta make the water hard too, doesn't work without hard water

[–] anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But I can't even make myself hard 😭

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago

too soon.

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Many regions won't need that of course :)