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Bones_and_Tomes t1_irdxoi6 wrote

Reply to comment by SeeMarkFly in Widely used sewer pipe repair technology creates and emits nanoplastics into the air by ajwhelton

Sure, but keeping them in the sewer is preferable to floating about in the air. Microplastics are probably better dealt with at water processing plants.

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FishinWabigoon t1_irecw8a wrote

But then we need nano filters that run the entire city's waste through them to capture these sewer repair nanoplastics. The filters would clog.

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Bones_and_Tomes t1_irer5i9 wrote

So how do we fix this problem. Obviously in an ideal world the microplastics wouldnt get into the water in the first place, so are they more destructive floating about in the air or in water?

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EmperorGeek t1_ire8hjd wrote

From the sewer they get into the ocean don’t they? (Or are at least released to the local aquifer at some point?)

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Bones_and_Tomes t1_ire9coz wrote

They should run through a water treatment plant first.

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EmperorGeek t1_ireae3w wrote

“Should” but there are a lot of storm drains that lead straight to bodies of water.

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