Put Down the Bottled Water: There Are Hundreds of Thousands of Nanoplastics in There

Grab a bottle of water and take a gander at the liquid inside. Now, hold it up to the light and look closely. Just water, right?

Well, not really. Swimming around inside are hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics. No, you can’t see them. That’s why they’re called nanoplastics. After all, they’re teensy-tiny pieces of plastic—smaller than microplastics, even—that come from the breakdown of other plastic products.

According to new research, you can find them inside bottled water.