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    A junior high school student from Warrenton, Virginia, built a water filter in her garage that removes 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.

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    5. IAmSpartacustard on

      Without an article to go with this I’m going to assume a normal brita filter removes 96% of microplastics

    9. TyrannyOfBobBarker_ on

      Well that’s real nice for the future but according to science my balls are already chock full of the stuff. All my children will be plastic children.

    14. A_normal_Potato3 on

      Warrenton, Virginia? I don’t think there is a country named Virginia. Please correct your title.

    15. OracleofNothing on

      Lifestraw makes filters that remove 99.99% of microplastics. Many other companies have similar products. It’s cool that a young person did this, but these already exist and aren’t expensive.

    16. makingkevinbacon on

      Great now my water will be bland, boring, and lacking all the minerals and heavy metals a growing boy in his 30s like me craves

    19. IamHimButNotReally on

      According to her tests, her prototype successfully removed 95.52 percent of microplastics from the water and recycled 87.15 percent of the ferrofluid. Traditional drinking-water treatment plants remove about [70 to more than 90](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10054062/) percent of microplastic components.

      Heller considers it suitable as an at-home under-the-sink filtration system. “Because ferrofluid is currently expensive to produce at a large scale,” she notes, “I see this as a system for individual home use.” “I would love to eventually bring it out to market,” she says. “I think that would be something that would be really interesting.”

      [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-school-student-invented-a-filter-that-eliminates-96-percent-of-microplastics-from-drinking-water-180988363/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-school-student-invented-a-filter-that-eliminates-96-percent-of-microplastics-from-drinking-water-180988363/)

    21. CouchPotatoFamine on

      Invented *another* one maybe, these already exist, buy one on Amazon if you want.

    22. Be-Kind-2-Yourself on

      I feel like I see this exact article with a different high schooler like once a year

    23. ilostmypaperplate on

      ah Reddit make any meme with a title and it will be on Yahoo news next week

    27. LivingBig2358 on

      another scientist thats gunna get erased from existence without any explanation 🙂

    28. Most-Profession-7438 on

      here i at the age of 20 don’t even know the water and its composition

    30. SkullDump on

      I’d have thought any standard RO filter should remove a far higher concentration.

    31. HNL2BOS on

      the article must have been made of microplastics and put through the filter, theres no article to reference but just several words pasted over a photo. how does shit like this have a few 100 up votes as is? how can this be interesting without any explanation?

    33. TorthOrc on

      And here’s a picture of macro-plastics on a finger.

      Microplastics are too small for the human eye to see

    35. Hundlordfart on

      And here I am watching Babe on Bluray, what a waste of time but that pig is brave!

    39. Jkid789 on

      Dang. Sucks to hear of her passing. If only she hadn’t fallen through the glass pane on that balcony.

    40. PrimalDirectory on

      Did some light reading and it involves a mixed oil that is magnetic into the water which binds to the plastic.

      I suspect this wouldnt be reasonably viable as it would be most ideal at the source in the big water plants where most of the filtering takes place. Which would require forcing them to set it up. And i point out flint michigan in the us still doesnt have regular drinking water after like a decade so i doubt well ecer get that fixed

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