Sherri Mason, a professor of chemistry at the university, conducted the analysis and told BBC: “We found [plastic] in bottle after bottle and brand after brand”. Test on major brands of ...

Researchers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that an average one-litre bottle of water contains around 240,000 plastic particles, a figure that is 10 to 100 times ...

Researchers have found that an average liter of bottled water contains about 240,000 plastic particles, most of which are nanoplastics, measuring just a fraction of the width of a human hair.