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Daily briefing: Plastic tea bags make plastic tea
Summary
A single plastic tea bag releases billions of microplastic particles directly into the beverage during steeping, meaning consumers may be ingesting microplastics with every cup. This finding adds to growing evidence that common household products are an underappreciated route of direct human microplastic exposure.
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