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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.
Only need to use energy to heat the water. It will cool by itself, as anyone who's ever used hot water for anything ever knows.
As others have said, not everything is about the environment, this is about public health.
You can argue that if you're actively cooling your home, then extra energy has to go into that when the water heats up the place.