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Are You Drinking Microplastics?

Plastic has become an incredibly harmful convenience, threatening environmental and human health alike, in more ways than one. Beyond the issue of bulk plastics lies the even bigger issue of microplastics — microscopic pieces of degraded plastic — which choke waterways across the globe and contaminate sea life, the food supply, drinking water and more. According to a recent study, plastic tea bags are playing a large role in the problem by shedding billions of microplastic shards...