A recent study highlighted in Environmental Research Letters suggests that boiling tap water can significantly reduce plastic pollution by destroying at least 80% of common plastic compounds.
This discovery points towards boiled tap water as a potentially safer option than bottled water, which has been found to contain up to 250,000 fragments of nanoplastics per liter. The study focused on the efficacy of boiling in eliminating polystyrene, polyethylene and polypropylene, commonly found in water.
These plastic compounds tend to break down into nanoplastics, small enough to penetrate human cell machinery and cross protective barriers in the body, posing health risks. Notably, polystyrene
