A piping hot cup of tea might be a comforting start to the day, but scientists have issued a ‘critical warning’ that your brew could be bursting with plastics.
Researchers from Recep Tayyip Erdogan University discovered that a single tea bag can release up to 2,500 microplastic particles into your drink.
However, their methods only captured particles bigger than 100 micrometres across, so the true number of plastic pieces could be significantly higher.
The researchers also discovered that plastic bags leak toxic forever chemicals like BPA and plasticisers into your drink.
Loose-leaf tea, on the other hand, was found to contain considerably lower levels
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