Avoiding microplastics can feel impossible—but limiting sites of known exposure is one way to protect your health.

Now, a new Chemosphere study has revealed that some popular tea bags release billions of microplastics during the brewing ...

A study published in November investigated the release of micro and nanoplastics from three empty tea bags purchased from Amazon, online shopping site AliExpress, and from a supermarket.

They purchased empty tea bags made of three commonly used materials: polypropylene, nylon, and cellulose. The team brewed the tea bags as a consumer would (minus the tea leaves) in sterile water ...