Your Tea Bag Is Serving You 11 Billion Pieces of Plastic — And That’s Just the Beginning

Tea Bags Exposed: The Plastic Pandemic in Your Pantry

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Are you a tea lover too? I used to think I was making a healthy choice. I’d flip open my wooden box of premium iced tea packets. I’d then tear the paper off of a sachet of beautifully scented tea and drop it into hot steamy water.

Then, I’d watch entranced as the water turned a lovely shade as the contents of the sachet steeped in the water. I thought I was transforming my tea cup with pure wellness. Little did I know, I was steeping more than tea leaves.

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Billions of Plastic Particles in Every Sip

My healthy tea ritual was hiding a surprising and unsettling truth. I discovered that every time you brew a cup using a plastic-based tea bag, you sip approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics along with that soothing cup of tea.

Let that sink in for a moment. You’re trying to eat and drink healthy, and in your drive to be your healthiest, you’re sipping plastic particles. Not that…