Plastic tea bags

BigTrout75@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 465 points –

I decided to have a green tea because it's healthier than soda. It's healthier, right?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10389239/

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How do you know it's plastic? I doubt that it is. Fabric can be made airproof by wetting it. That's how you can use your pants as a life vest too.

These are extremely common tea bags found all over the world that are well known to be made of plastic.

These also look like the ones rishi uses which they claim is silk

polylactid to be precise which is completely decomposable. paper tea bags on the other hand are often printed on a fine mesh of polypropylene which causes microplastic.

brb, going to try to use my pants as a lifevest

They used to make us learn this in Basic Training for the Navy. It looked absolutely ridiculous and I loved it.