Researchers issue warning about alarming threat lurking in coffee cups: 'A growing public-health concern'

"Daily ingestion of microplastics (MPs) is a growing public-health concern, partially linked to widespread use of single use of plastic cups and containers," the authors wrote in the paper.

A New Study Suggests To-Go Coffee Cups May Not Be as Risk-Free as We Think

A new analysis examined how certain commercially used coffee cups perform across a range of temperatures, revealing what actually happens when a hot drink is poured into the cup.
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To-Go Coffee Cups Release Thousands of Microplastics: How to Stay Safe

Share on Pinterest Research shows that to-go coffee cups can release microplastics, depending on the temperature of the beverage. Image credit: Vradiy Art/Stocksy A new study found that heat ...
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There’s a big reason you may want to ditch those plastic coffee cups

Testing 400 coffee cups To see how this works in the real world, we collected 400 coffee cups of two major types around Brisbane: plastic cups made of polyethylene and plastic-lined paper cups which ...