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A Single Tea Bag Could Release Billions of Microplastics Into The Body


Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and bottled water – but it may come as a shock to discover just how many of these tiny fragments can lurk inside a single tea bag.

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