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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Milk? Sugar? Microplastics? Some tea bags found to shed billions of particles

Amount is significantly higher than the estimated amount of microplastics particles consumed by a person in an entire year

Tea drinkers could be getting more than they bargained for in their brew, as a new study has found that a single plastic tea bag can shed billions of particles of microplastics.

The researchers from McGill University in Canada have found that when plastic tea bags are steeped in a cup of almost boiling water (95C), the bag releases around 11.6bn microplastics and 3.1bn smaller nanoplastic particles into the cup.

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