Canadian researchers find hot water and plastic tea bags are not an ideal combination CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 27, 2019 12:38 PM PDT | Last Updated: September 27, 2019 ...

A tea bag is held up to the edge of a mug. Tea bags can come with health risks, research has revealed, because some of them contain plastic which can be released into the hot water. Ralf Geithe ...

A cup of tea made with a plastic tea bag has between 13 and 16 micrograms of microplastics — a huge amount compared to amounts found in other foods. Photo by Getty Images ...

Researchers there found that each cup of tea brewed using a plastic tea bag released approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics.

Do not toss your used teabags into your compost pile just yet. The tea itself is fine, but the bag may be a problem. Find out ...

New research shows that plastic teabags leach huge amounts of microplastic particles during the brewing process With the colder weather coming on, tea is many people’s beverage of choice, but new ...

Serving bubble tea without using single-use plastic products poses particular challenges. The tea is usually served in a plastic cup and sealed with clear plastic, then slurped through a plastic ...