A Columbia team counted about 240,000 plastic particles in a litre of bottled water and put their mass at roughly 10 nanograms: four and a half years into treaty talks there is no agreed text, and the only microplastics banned EU-wide are microbeads and glitter Startups September 2, 2026 In January 2024 a workforce at Columbia and Rutgers printed a brand new approach of counting plastic in water, and…