Tourists fill plastic bottles with water from a public fountain at the Sforzesco Castle, in Milan, Italy.
Scientists discovered hundreds of thousands of mico- and nanoplastics inside popular water bottle brands.
  • In a new study, scientists measured the amount of micro- and nanoplastics inside a bottle of water.
  • The numbers were so high that some of the researchers said they're cutting back on bottled water.
  • It's unclear if micro- and nanoplastics pose a threat to human health.

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers.