If you’re drinking tap water, you’re consuming plastic pollutants

Workers in Muara Angke, Indonesia, steam and shuck mussels pulled from the waters around Jakarta. Scientists have studied how micro plastics absorb toxins they are in proximity to and how they are then taken up into the food chain in mussels and other shellfish. (Photo by Christopher Tyree/©OrbMedia)
Microscopic plastic fibers are pouring out of household faucets from New York to Delhi, according to original research by Orb Media, a nonprofit digital newsroom in Washington, DC.
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