Unfortunately, a growing body of research has detected contaminants and microplastics pretty much everywhere, including our tap water. Now, new research has detected microplastics in yet another ...

Tea bags could be releasing billions of microplastic particles when brewed, recent research found. The study also found that human cells absorbed the plastic particles, suggesting that microplastics ...

Tea bags are a convenient way to prep a delicious hot beverage. That is, until the bag breaks. Here's how to save a cup of ...

This is a fairly complicated question to answer, one which I spent a considerable amount of time researching about fifteen or so years ago. First, tea bag tea largely obeys first order kinetics, so ...

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 ...