Illustration showing PLastic teabag steeped at 95C "billions of microplastics and nanoplastics"

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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 01:09:17 JST AI6YR Ben

   Composting/gardening note: One item I do not compost (unfortunately, have in the past) are plastic tea bags. Plastic tea bags are a notorious source of microplastics (both for the environment, and for people). Don't use them.

   Study: "Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea"

   "...We show that steeping a single plastic teabag at brewing temperature (95 °C) releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup of the beverage...."

   https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b02540

   #composting #garden #tea #teabags #microplastics #pollution