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Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics, entering human intestinal cells
(medicalxpress.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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Is there a way to tell whether teabags use these materials? It's not really something listed in the ingredients
I have bad news: even "non-plastic" tea bags have plastic fibres woven into the paper/cloth. These fibres allow the material to be sealed with heat. Best to use loose leaf and a strainer.
Source? For example the clipper website says they don’t use plastic, how do you know it still has plastic? https://www.clipper-teas.com/tea-talk/plastic-free-tea-bags/
Read that link carefully, there's a lot of flowery language but they do not say their bags are plastic-free.