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So, you have to apply extra energy to heat the water, and then use even more extra energy to cool the water?
Even if it eliminates the microplastics, I fail to see how this helps the environment.
Edit: What you gonna do, boil and refreeze the oceans to remove the microplastics?
Fuckoff with all that nonsense. Might as well buy a diet coke and a cardboard straw (which comes in plastic wrap), and act like you're saving the day.
First sentence, "Tap water nano/microplastics (NMPs) escaping from centralized water treatment systems are of increasing global concern, because they pose potential health risk to humans via water consumption." This article is focused on micro plastics in human consumption not the environment.
Oh, I see now. We only care about the humans now, not the environment we literally depend on?
The entire ecosystem is intertwined...
Who are you inferring only cares about humans?
People can care about two things at once, while focusing on one.
Kind of like how when I have sex with my girlfriend I think about her mother.
What the fuck
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