These tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study shows
A couple of years ago, Nathalie Tufenkji stopped by a Montreal cafe on her way to work and ordered a cup of tea. She sat down with her mug, enjoying its warmth, before she noticed something strange: Her tea bag appeared to be made of plastic.
“I thought, ‘That’s not a very good idea, putting plastic into boiling water,’ ” she told The Washington Post.
Tufenkji was worried that the plastic bags could leach particles into the beverage that she and her fellow customers were consuming, and as a professor of chemical engineering at McGill University, she was well positioned to investigate. She dispatched her student Laura Hernandez to purchase tea bags from stores in the area and bring them back to the lab.
It turns out Tufenkji’s hunch was right. The bags were releasing plastic particles into the brewed tea. Billions and billions of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/27/these-tea-bags-release-billions-plastic-particles-into-your-brew-study-shows/
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Plastic is lightweight, granted, but the disadvantages pile up after that.
I was fortunate to have a milk delivery service in glass bottles, but they've gotten really expensive. I HATE having to throw out two 1-gallon plastic milk jugs each week. I do clean them out and put them in recycle, but from what I can tell, this plastic is getting landfilled regardless.
