This report on The New Scientist seems, at first glance, to be total nonsense, but if one actually reads it, it makes sense.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are in everything: in our water, food, in our bodies and the bodies of animals and plants; even in our placentas and our new-born children. This pollution is carcinogenic, and seems to be implicated in reductions in sperm counts and fertility.

Boiling tap water removes about 80% of the tiny plastic particles. The obvious question is "what happens to the microplastics when one boils the water?" The answer is that it gets bound into the limescale that builds up in our kettles. If you have very hard tap water, as we do in Munich, more plastic is removed; if you have completely soft water, then presumably none is removed.

Of course, boiled water tastes disgusting. Some brands of bottled water taste better, but bottled water also contains microplastics, so that is no solution. I haven't seen any data on the effectiveness of water filters, but it seems logical that filtering would also remove some of the microplastics.

We really need a comprehensive plan to phase out plastics, or replace them with biodegradable plastics, before we make ourselves extinct.