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A new study reveals polymer-based tea bags release billions of microplastics and nanoplastics into hot tea. These particles ...

Every sip counts! Tea bags could be exposing tea drinkers to billions of nanoplastics per sip, according to recent research.

The material of tea bags is mainly paper, but plastics such as polyamide (nylon), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene ...

The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose. The study shows that, when brewing tea, polypropylene releases approximately 1.2 billion particles ...