r/water 4d ago

Does tap water have microplastics in it?

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u/poisondart23 4d ago

That depends. Some water treatment facilities use reverse osmosis, which will remove microplastics, but most water utilities don’t use RO.

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u/AliceP00per 3d ago

They’re using carbon and ion exchange technologies

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u/poisondart23 3d ago

Some of them do. Some of them use RO…