A recent study founded that brewing tea bags could release billions of tiny plastic particles into your cup. Experts explain ...

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Avoiding microplastics can feel impossible—but limiting sites of known exposure is one way to protect your health.

Tea bags can be filled with plastics, but a safer alternative could be loose tea leaves. Many companies these days offer ...

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When many plastics break down, they create tiny particles known as microplastics, which are less than five millimeters long. Their tiny size has allowed them to get into everything, from human ...

Fish and shrimp are full of tiny particles from clothing, packaging and other plastic products, that could affect our health.

Microplastics can go right through wastewater treatment plants, and researchers have engineered bacteria commonly found in there to break down this pollution before it can persist in the environment.

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A new study found that millions and billions of plastics are released by commercially ... to develop standardised test methods to assess [micro and nanoplastic] MNPLs contamination released ...

They found that the "mucus-producing intestinal cells had the highest uptake of micro and nanoplastics, with the particles even entering the cell nucleus that houses the genetic material.

Want sugar or milk in your tea? How about plastic? Researchers have found that tea bags are releasing millions of nanoplastics and microplastics into tea. Monika Skolimowska/dpa ...