Plastic Tea Bags - More News
Sep 30, 2019 07:49:34 #
I read another article about plastic tea bags just now. A researcher at McGill University stopped on her way to work to get a cup of tea. As she sat drinking it, she noticed that the tea bag was made of plastic. When she got to work, she organized her fellow researchers to look into this. Like the previous study, their results show that a single tea bag releases billions of tiny pieces of plastic into the cup of tea. Although they didn't look into the effects of this plastic on humans, when they gave it to water fleas, the fleas suffered harmful effects.
I checked my supply of tea bags because I have some of the pyramid-shaped bags like the ones pictured below. Mine are Lipton chai tea bags, and they are plastic. I had to examine them closely because they don't look like plastic at a casual glance. My tea bags that have the traditional shape are plastic. I don't need a scientific study to tell me that consuming plastic isn't a good idea.
https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+tea+bags%5C&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS716US717&oq=plastic+tea+bags%5C&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j69i61j69i60j69i61.4377j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I checked my supply of tea bags because I have some of the pyramid-shaped bags like the ones pictured below. Mine are Lipton chai tea bags, and they are plastic. I had to examine them closely because they don't look like plastic at a casual glance. My tea bags that have the traditional shape are plastic. I don't need a scientific study to tell me that consuming plastic isn't a good idea.
https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+tea+bags%5C&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS716US717&oq=plastic+tea+bags%5C&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j69i61j69i60j69i61.4377j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Sep 30, 2019 07:51:19 #
Sep 30, 2019 08:01:06 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I read another article about plastic tea bags just... (show quote)
Well, that's downright disgusting. Thanks for the heads-up!
Sep 30, 2019 08:10:25 #
Sep 30, 2019 08:28:35 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I read another article about plastic tea bags just... (show quote)
It's a conspiracy. Probably like the demo's after us again...
Ok, just a joke if anybody wonders.
Sep 30, 2019 08:42:16 #
tairving
Loc: Magnolia, Texas USA
I read another article which says that the K-cups we use to brew our coffee also release plastic and are bad for us.
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/a19930526/dangers-of-k-cups/
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/a19930526/dangers-of-k-cups/
Sep 30, 2019 08:45:26 #
Sep 30, 2019 08:50:22 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
I heard about this on the cable news the other day. I buy my tea from an international food store, that gets imported tea the British and Indian people drink. Imported from Sri Lanka. No plastic bags on the Brand I buy. I drink ice tea in the summertime, and hot during the winter months. When I did buy Lipton tea. None were pyramid shaped as shown in the photo posted.
Oct 1, 2019 06:27:18 #
You can't beat a cuppa brewed in a pot from fresh leaves, a guaranteed way to avoid plastic. With a Lincoln biscuit to dunk.
Oct 1, 2019 06:43:17 #
Oct 1, 2019 07:40:11 #
Longshadow wrote:
What about plastic mugs?
I'll wait for a test on them, but I suspect the tiny filaments of the teabag would be more susceptible to leaching plastic.
Oct 1, 2019 07:51:32 #
John N wrote:
You can't beat a cuppa brewed in a pot from fresh leaves, a guaranteed way to avoid plastic. With a Lincoln biscuit to dunk.
We don't get Lincoln Biscuits here. And have to really search for fresh tea leaves. I think we get the stale leaves left over from the UK. Or something...
Oct 1, 2019 08:30:07 #
I'm sure I've seen LINCOLN biscuits for sale in the U.S., and tea leaves but they were in an expats shop in Tulsa which didn't have a reliable stock. Or you might find the biscuits in an Irish shop as they are currently made in Ireland by Jacobs. But that as long ago as 2011.
I'll ask my sister in law (a tea aficionado) who lived in Tulsa for 7 years how she got on.
I'll ask my sister in law (a tea aficionado) who lived in Tulsa for 7 years how she got on.
Oct 1, 2019 09:42:21 #
"Plastics"...the famous line in the advice given in the movie "The Graduate". It is impossible (well nearly) to avoid contact with plastic in our food supply for decades now. Foods are in contact with plastics, including storage and packaging, in many ways. I imagine there are advantages to being a fresh vegetable vegetarian (yuck). It would now be difficult to imagine a world without plastic or other hydrocarbon derivatives.
Most often good things can cut both ways however the improvement in the quality of life of the masses due to products produced from crude have, perhaps, far exceeded its evil. With that said, I don't like the thought of drinking or eating micro-plastic particles either which is why I drink my beer from glass bottles!
Most often good things can cut both ways however the improvement in the quality of life of the masses due to products produced from crude have, perhaps, far exceeded its evil. With that said, I don't like the thought of drinking or eating micro-plastic particles either which is why I drink my beer from glass bottles!
Oct 1, 2019 11:10:56 #
Cragzop
Loc: NYC
[quote=jerryc41]I read another article about plastic tea bags just now. A researcher at McGill University stopped on her way to work to get a cup of tea. As she sat drinking it, she noticed that the tea bag was made of plastic. When she got to work, she organized her fellow researchers to look into this. Like the previous study, their results show that a single tea bag releases billions of tiny pieces of plastic into the cup of tea. Although they didn't look into the effects of this plastic on humans, when they gave it to water fleas, the fleas suffered harmful effects.
Those of us old enough to remember were squeezing toothpaste out of tube made of lead!
Today we squeeze a plastic tube.
Those of us old enough to remember were squeezing toothpaste out of tube made of lead!
Today we squeeze a plastic tube.
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