Just one plastic tea bag can release 11.6 billion microplastics into a cup of tea, according to research from McGill ...

Some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in your cup, new research suggests. Canadian researchers found that some plastic tea bags shed high levels of ...

But have some gone too far with their claims? Clipper, the UK's sixth biggest tea brand, declares its bags "plastic free". But when you look at the small print it says the company uses a bio ...

Although some tea bags are paper-based, many commercial tea bags are made from plastic-based materials such as polypropylene and nylon. These materials can break down into microplastics when ...

Hardman does research on microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic debris that ... and over a billion in a plastic tea bag. Much of the early science on how plastics impact human health is ...

Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and ... amongst seemingly endless tiny shards of plastic.

Bin with compost items and suggestions on what to do with paper and compostable bags, Union Square ... they can frequently break down into micro-plastics, which research shows can contaminate ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Two weeks after birth, two newborn rats—one male and one female—were tested for micro- and nanoplastic exposure. In both cases, the same type of plastic that the mothers inhaled during ...