Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tea-bags-plastic-study-mcgill-1.5295662

Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Sep 25, 2019 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Many fancier teas now come in 'silken' bags instead of paper, and some of them are pyramid-shaped, which is billed as a way to make room for the large leaves in premium teas to expand.(Shutterstock / slawomir.gawryluk)


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You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests.

Many fancier teas now come in "silken" bags instead of paper. Some of them are pyramid-shaped, which is billed as a way to make room for the large leaves in premium teas to expand. 

Nathalie Tufenkji, a professor of chemical engineering at the Montreal university, was surprised to find one such bag in the tea she ordered from a coffee shop one morning.

It looked like plastic, she recalled. "I said, 'Oh God, I'm sure if it's plastic it's, like, breaking down into the tea.'"

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[Beakybird]

1. Oh my God!

I used to drink tons of this tea. I have been drinking an orange herbal tea - one every day that I got from Costco. Holy mole!!
Those are plastic???

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4. Not regular old paper tea bags but the new ones that can be triangular.

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2. Alternative/Remedy:

Loose leaves in a tea infuser or tea ball.

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3. Or the old fashioned paper tea bags.