2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
When asked how we drink our tea, everyone answers differently, but the answers always contain the names of food products - milk, sugar or honey, but never billions of plastic particles. However, they are in our bodies, whether we mention them or not. Why and how does this happen?
Manufacturers en masse replace paper tea bags with plastic oneswhich they call silk. In fact, there is no silk in them. Nylon and polyethylene terephthalate, known by the abbreviation PET, are the materials for production. PET is a plastic polymer that can also be found in plastic water bottles.
The goal is to heal tea bags. However, this practice is not only bad but also dangerous. The bags are harmful to the environment. A recent study shows that they excrete billions of microplastic particles in a cup of tea. According to experts, the reason is that microplastic is heated to a point close to the boiling point when the tea is brewed.
How does this affect the body?
In the study, the researchers placed water fleas in water with different concentrations of microplastics. The test specimens do not die, but show changes at the anatomical and behavioral levels that suggest the toxic effect of plastic on them.
What the effects will be on the human body is not yet clear. The World Health Organization has come out with the opinion that the microplastic in drinking water will not have a negative effect on health. However, the conclusions are based on insufficient information, as acknowledged by the organization.
If we think about it, microplastic there are all around us. It is in the rainwater of the continents, as well as in the snow of the Arctic and in all the products we use in everyday life. There is no way that in the digestive system of every modern person these particles have not got, regardless of whether he drinks tea or not.
Another study from this year found that the average person in urban modern society receives more than 70,000 particles. microplastic per year. Another parallel study proves that much of this matter can be found in human feces.
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