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Microplastic exposure from coffee filters

Do Coffee filters also have the same problem of releasing micro plastics?

coffee filters do release some micro plastics as well because they’re not completely paper and they have some plastic like polyethylene. But they are much less of a magnitude than the plastic teabags.

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