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Plastic Tea Bags Steep Thousands of Microplastics Into Every Cup—and That’s Not All


Some plastic tea bags can steep as much as 555 to 2,498 microplastic particles per cup, according to university researchers in Türkiye. But that contamination is only the beginning.

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