Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain found that individual tea bags steeped in boiling water can release billions of micro- and nanoplastic particles. Here's what to know.

The good news: There are other ways to brew your tea.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 个月前

    Yes, I’ve already heard the reports of microplastics in testicles, of course they’re in the teabags too…

  • nocturne
    71·
    1 个月前

    Cool, so is everything else. At this point does it matter?

    • kugel7c@feddit.orgDeutsch
      1·
      1 个月前

      Also one of their targets is cellulose which like, if you aren’t a committed carnivore shouldn’t be much of an issue right ?

    • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
      02·
      1 个月前

      Possibly maybe! But you rlllllllllllly shouldn’t! You worrying gonna cause way way way more harm than a variable you absolutely have no control over!

      But good news, it has no effect short term whatsoever!Plus fun fact, it’s practically impossible to carry out long term experiments on us! Its just not a realistic expectation for someone to do something for decades that is expected to wildly shorten their lifetimes!

      But theoretically, as far as I understand by my ever limited understanding as a bioengineer, it kind of shouldn’t! The dangerous thingie about plastic that it releases unbound oxygen on high temperatures. Now if unbound oxygen gets exited, its gonna get the zoomies wrecking, among many less important things, your DNA and causing cancer! So eat antioxidants, like a ripe banana every day!