Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Tea bags could be releasing billions of microplastic ...
Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and bottled water – but it may come as a shock to discover just how many of ...
They’re in our oceans, soil, air, snow — and even in your cup of tea. Plastic tea bags are shedding billions of shards of microplastics into their water, according to a new study. Researchers at ...
As the UK wakes up to the damage single-use plastic is wreaking on our planet, it seems even the most unexpected of everyday British joys are to blame, such as the humble cup of tea. This is because a ...