Plastic In Tea Bags. In incredibly worrying news for serial tea drinkers, tea bags have been found to contain particles of plastic. While tea bags can release microplastic, not all teabags release the same amount of nanoplastics.

Plastic in tea bags is very harmful to your health and the environment.

If your favourite brand of tea is using plastic teabags, you are probably getting a gutful of microplastics. They are most commonly made from food grade nylon or polyethylene terephthalate (pet), which are two of the safest plastics on the scale of harmful leaching potential. Many tea bags feature synthetic plastic which, when steeped in hot water, can release billions of microplastic. With millions upon millions of cups due to the plastic content, conventional tea bags cannot completely decompose. The subsequent blog post i wrote about it (back in 2014) is my most popular post to date, having been. For the solution of the issue, we. But we're now waking up to the issues this plastic obsession has caused, and as a result. Both have very high melting points, which offer some assurance to consumers. After all, you'd think that companies would have done studies before adding plastic to tea bags that. Some manufacturers sell tea in plastic bags rather than loose or in paper bags, even as the public becomes increasingly aware of how plastic is clogging our bodies of water, as well as our bodies. We are actively working on our use of plastics in three key areas