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Reverse osmosis leaches microplastics (because of the membrane): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a-quarter-million-invisible-micropl
by hedora 2y ago
Reverse osmosis leaches microplastics (because of the membrane):
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a-quarter-million-invisible-microplastic-particles-in-a-liter-of-bottled-water https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/scientists-find-about-a...
I guess it’s possible to distill the water and add clean minerals back in. (Not sure if “clean minerals” are something that you can obtain though.)
- OutOfHere 2y agoAfter the RO layer should exist another activated charcoal layer. This should block most of the leaked polyamide from the RO layer. My filter is this way.
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoYou point to the membrane as a leakage source, but most RO systems also use flexible hosing in the assembly and from past work in medical devices it seems that flexible hosing is also a huge source of phthalate leakage. Is that something that is also taken into account in higher end RO systems?
- drivebyhooting 2y agoReverse osmosis completely removes heavy metals from water. I’ll take my chances with microplastic over lead.