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How much plastic have you drunk today?

2020
Tom Grayson, Zhu K., R. Amani, Claude Aguergaray, Neil G. R. Broderick, Michél K. Nieuwoudt, M. Cather Simpson, Alex Risos

Summary

This brief piece discusses the scale of microplastic contamination in drinking water and highlights the urgent need for rapid, real-time testing methods. The author notes that standard tests can take days to produce results, creating a gap in water safety monitoring.

Study Type Environmental

Worldwide, one in three people do not have access to safe drinking water Standard tests can take several days to produce a result Hence, there is a clear need for rapid and specific testing that can produce results in real time. Here, we focus on microplastics pollution in drinking water. A typical pollution pathway is shown in Fig.

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