A Faint Hope for the future

As our biosphere and bodies get polluted by micro-plastics a faint hope is offered.

Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9 Percent of Microplastics From Water

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Crafted by researchers out of Canada's University of British Columbia and China's Sichuan University, the "bioCap" purifying filter is comprised of compounds from fruit and wood that are able to eliminate almost all microplastics in water. Using fruit tannins — the chemicals that make under-ripe fruit taste bad — coated over sawdust, the researchers were able to create a cylindrical water filtration device that eliminates between 95.2 and 99.9 percent of microplastics depending on what they're made of.

We can only hope that this is scalable and the process can be usefully applied.