The average tea drinker in the U.K. goes through about four bags a day -- that's nearly 1,500 tea bags tossed in the trash each year. No wonder so many people wonder whether those bags can be ...

They're in our oceans, soil, air, snow -- and even in your cup of tea. Plastic tea bags are shedding billions of shards of microplastics into their water, according to a new study. Researchers at ...

The process of brewing tea passively removes significant amount of toxic heavy metals from drinking water, according to a new study. Researchers tested different types of tea, tea bags and brewing ...