When it comes to microplastics — the tiny fragments that end up in rivers, lakes and eventually drinking water — wastewater treatment plants aren’t equipped with the resources to catch it. Anything smaller than the stuff visible to the naked eye just sails straight through because the filtration systems were never designed to deal with particles that small.
It’s been a known gap for years and nobody’s come up with a particularly good fix for it yet, partly because trying to mechanically filter out something that tiny from millions of litres of water is exceptionally expensive.
However, a researcher at the University of Missouri has been trying something completely different, and the results suggest it might actually be a goer.
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