Scientists Say They'll Cut Back on Bottled Water After Learning 1 Liter Contains a Quarter of a Million Pieces of Plastic. Cara Lynn Shultz. Wed, January 10, 2024 at 10:36 PM UTC.

This bottle (and its 0.6-liter version, which I also tested) had the strongest plasticky taste of any in my testing pool, although if filtration is a priority, the impressive 1-micron filter ...

The average one-liter plastic bottle of water contains levels of “nanoplastics” that are 100 times higher than previously thought, according to a new study.

Just 1 liter of bottled water contains an estimated 240,000 of these tiny pieces of plastic — smaller than the eye can see — that go undetected through conventional examination.

A new study found the average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope. (AP Photo/Mary ...

One liter of water — the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters — contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles from seven types of plastics, of which 90% were identified as ...

Researchers found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. Most of them were nanoplastics — particles less than 1 micrometer in size. June 16, 2025 ...