Plastic with your tea?
"Although I haven't consumed tea from a tea bag, in many years, I cannot imagine drinking a cup after reading an article posted by CNN. You may be sacrificing your health for convenience. For me, it's just as easy to place one tea spoon of tea into a tea ball infuser than it is to use a tea bag. If you are going to use tea bags, please make sure they are not bleached and are made of cloth materials. I leave the excerpt from the CNN article below for you to read here. Happy tea drinking folks!"
-- Aunt Jenn
Excerpt from: "A single tea bag can leak billions of pieces of microplastic into your brew"
*Plastic tea bags are shedding billions of shards of microplastics into their water, according to a new study. Researchers at McGill University in Canada analyzed the effects of placing four different commercial tea bags into boiling water. They found that a single bag releases around 11.6 billion microplastic particles, and 3.1 billion even smaller nanoplastic particles, into the cup -- thousands of times higher than the amount of plastic previously found in other food and drink. Many tea producers use polypropylene to seal their bags.
