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When I first heard about reverse osmosis (RO), I imagined some kind of futuristic, sci-fi water purification system—like a tiny spaceship for your sink, zapping contaminants into oblivion. Turns ou...

Looking around the world today, it’s a little difficult to imagine what a post-plastic one would look like. The history of how plastic went from an interesting technology to fundamental to modern l...

(This article is also available as a podcast at https://therightfilter.substack.com/) When we talk about PFAS/OS, what are we actually talking about? Let’s start with Wikipedia. “[P]er- and polyflu...

At The Right Filter, we carry a small number of water filters. This is on purpose.  They aren’t the most cutting edge technology, or some sort of hyped up repackaging of an older technology.  They ...

When I started out in the water filtration industry, I thought it would be pretty obvious what filter to use.  I mean, we’ve been filtering water since the dawn of civilization so how hard could it...

Like a lot of people, I ramped up my hand washing during Covid. Unlike a lot of people, having a mother who was a nurse also meant I didn’t have to learn how to wash my hands ‘the right way’. What ...

When I was a kid, being sick meant one thing: soup. Cold? Soup. Cough? Soup. Nauseous? Soup.  When I got older, earned my own money, cooked my own food, advocated for myself at the doctors, and got...

As an immigrant, sometimes I am shocked at how regional America can be. Where I grew up, a biscuit was a small, usually sweet, crumbly thing you ate with tea. In Baltimore, and further south, a bis...

Back when I started working in water filtration, I thought I had a basic understanding of how water filters worked. After about 6 months, I realized how little I actually knew. Even now, I’m still ...