Chinese scientists have declared that boiling your drinking water can remove microplastics. There area few caveats, but the idea seems sound. But do you believe the solution to the microplastics ‘crisis’ is as simple as that?
There’s been little official response from the greater scientific community as yet on the recent report by Chinese researchers that boiling your drinking water can precipitate potentially dangerous micro- and nano-plastics particles from their main source in our environment…
But the news that the idea has been proven in principle should come as a great relief to all of us. So why haven’t the headlines heralding the discovery been bigger, and bolder?
Makes sense – but…
When I first heard about the ‘boiling’ theory, it made sense to me. It simply states that, when brought to a rolling boil, minerals dissolved in regular tap water crystallize and settle out. Taking with them the tiny, invisible plastic particles that have invaded our environment and our bodies.
My first reaction on giving the proposition more thought was – “Why hasn’t somebody thought about this angle sooner?”
Simple answer…
I’ve decided that it was just too simple a solution to the problem for most conventional minds to admit to serious consideration.
Though I’m sure many experts in the field are rushing, as I write this, to replicate the Chinese experimental results and make their own contribution to the ‘discovery’.
My questions to you:
DO you believe the ‘boiling’ method can be effective in trapping and precipitating macro- and nano-plastics from our drinking?
DO you believe the method can be scaled up to successfully treat the huge volumes of tap water our developed populations use every day?
DO you believe we still need a solution, or multiple solutions, to the problem of micro-plastics getting into the environment in the first place?
DO you, in fact, believe that micro-plastics can actually be as bad for us as the all the experts insist, in the first place?
Muse on that…
~ Maggie J.