Researchers warn that the heat from your morning coffee or tea could be releasing microscopic plastic particles into your ...

It’s fall, the weather is getting cooler, and the time is right for steaming, soothing cups of tea. But as you sip on your favorite brew, you may be unwittingly ingesting billions of microplastics, ...

Trillions of potentially dangerous nanometer-sized particles are being spewed into the environment by everything from plastic cups to tea bags so people can have a little bit more convenience at home.

The reported releases of microplastics ranged from a few hundred particles to over 8 million particles per liter in a new ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

Tea has been used medicinally since ancient times to boost immunity, reduce inflammation, and even fight certain diseases. But there’s some tea on tea that you might not know — the way we prepare it ...

MONTREAL - For thousands of years, tea has been imbibed to treat ailments, lift moods and calm the mind, but a new study found that modern packaging — specifically plastic tea bags — are releasing ...

Bubble tea, in all its glorious, sugary forms, has but one flaw: the inconvenient truth of its plastic packaging’s environmental impact. With its typically single-use plastic cups, covers, and — most ...

Tea will be sold in environment-friendly ''kulhads'' (earthen cups) in place of plastic cups at all railway stations in the country, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.

As plastic straw bans continue to sweep the world, so does the prevalence of alternative drinking utensils made of everything from paper to pasta. At this point, for anyone who doesn’t need a plastic ...