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What consumers think of as normal "paper" tea bags release 11.6 billion “microplastics” and 3.1 billion “nanoplastics” into each cup. It's not paper.


That's 11603.1 whole plastics!


Waiter, there's a plastic in my tea!


Underrated comment.


Redditor spotted.


Since when did micro- and nanoplastics become an SI unit?

Where do I put my feet?


On the table.


which tea bags don't do this?


I wouldn't use tea bags at all. Use a metal loose leaf tea infuser and buy loose leaf tea. I use this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X50NUU4


The "use jquery" answer for tea bags. "How do I do X with tea bags?" "Don't use tea bags, use this better thing!"


Fair point, though this particular example makes me actually want to use the metal infuser instead of tea bags.


the hilarity of suggesting use of something from Amazon when the discussion is about avoiding health hazards...


I bet $10 this is actually covered in a very thin layer of plastic because it's what seems to happen to some metal products in the food space (see e.g. "aluminum" cans).




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