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These fucking clickbait titles.
It only really works with hard water, otherwise you’d have to add calcium to the water before boiling it, and they only tested it with something like 3 different plastics, and they’re the most benign and least reactive ones.
This is not a magical solution to clean any water you boil.
Yes to the first, as for the second, who knows, but most likely not, as it’ll be mixed plastics and you can’t just mix them all together and make something out of them