If your favourite brand of tea is using plastic teabags, you are probably getting a gutful of microplastics.
如果你最喜欢的茶饮品牌在使用塑料茶包,那么你可能会喝一肚子微塑料。
A new study has found that a single plastic teabag steeped at a brewing temperature of 95 degrees Celsius releases around 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup. Let that sink in for a moment.
一项新研究发现,在95摄氏度的沏茶温度下,用一袋塑料茶包泡一杯茶会释放出116亿个塑料微粒和31亿个纳米塑料微粒。让我们先来思考一下。
Currently, we're estimated to consume over 74,000 particles of microplastics a year. According to this research, there's nearly 200,000 times that amount in a single cup of plastic teabag tea.
目前,我们估计人们每年要喝掉74000个塑料微粒。根据这项研究,用一袋塑料茶包泡茶,其微塑料含量几乎是它的20万倍。
Microplastics are everywhere. So much of our food is wrapped in plastic, for a start, and often ends up in the food itself.
微塑料无处不在。首先,我们的很多食物用的都是塑料包装,而且微塑料往往最终都会进入食物内。
In addition, it leaches out into the environment. We're making (painfully slow) headway eliminating useless plastic microbeads from body washes, and phasing out plastic straws and bags, but the damage has been done.
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