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by rapsey 667 days ago
Some brands have plastic ones. You should never drink tea from plastic bags.
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Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b02540
Avoid paper also
care to elaborate?
Paper manufacturing is not devoid of chemicals, it needs bleaching to be white and all the machines to put it in its final shape use mineral oils that find way into the final product. But maybe the quality of the tea itself dwarves the things you find in teabags.
Show me the study that says non-naturally occurring bleach has been observed in human testicles.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831...

Bleached paper is probably not a threat to testicles, but it's taking a toll on the environment they're living in. And it's for a frivolous reason: having snow white paper.