What have you learned today?

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Tea bags release millions of plastic particles during brewing

Polymer tea bags release billions of plastic particles during brewing. They interact with intestinal cells, even entering the nuclei.

www.earth.com

DOES YOUR MORNING CUP OF TEA CONTAIN PLASTIC? — Waste Loop

As an avid tea drinker I'm surprised it has taken me this long to fully research and write a blog on this topic. But then again, who wants to learn that they may have been unknowingly ingesting billions of micro- and nano-plastics for years?

www.wasteloop.org

Well fuck, I drank Lipton green decaf pretty much every night for nearly two decades. Those bags are composed of manilla hemp, cellulose and thermoplastic fibers. Switched to Bigelow about a year ago.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Tea bags release millions of plastic particles during brewing

Polymer tea bags release billions of plastic particles during brewing. They interact with intestinal cells, even entering the nuclei.

www.earth.com

DOES YOUR MORNING CUP OF TEA CONTAIN PLASTIC? — Waste Loop

As an avid tea drinker I'm surprised it has taken me this long to fully research and write a blog on this topic. But then again, who wants to learn that they may have been unknowingly ingesting billions of micro- and nano-plastics for years?

www.wasteloop.org

Well fuck, I drank Lipton green decaf pretty much every night for nearly two decades. Those bags are composed of manilla hemp, cellulose and thermoplastic fibers. Switched to Bigelow about a year ago.

So Bigelow is good? Because that is my brand of choice; love their pomegranate, blueberry, and vanilla chai teas.

 

[Shadow1414]

In the year one manga of Classroom of the Elite, Kiyotaka's facial expressions are goofy. As opposed to the anime, light novel and year two manga, where they're stoic.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

So Bigelow is good? Because that is my brand of choice; love their pomegranate, blueberry, and vanilla chai teas.

Basically anything that notes being compostable should be good.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

May be helpful when in Indonesia -

 

[gorfias]

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

May be helpful when in Indonesia -

I'd say that the most effective way to survive a Komodo dragon would be to not go to Indonesia.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Today I learned that the school lunch programs we Americans are all familiar with today was spearheaded by none other than the Black Panthers:

How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government | HISTORY

The Panthers’ popular breakfast programs put pressure on political leaders to feed children before school.

www.history.com

Of course, good ol' J. Edgar Hoover wasn't having any of that goodwill towards the Black Panthers, and ordered law enforcement to go in and destroy the program. But enough people had seen the results to prod the USDA, which had been trying to make that kind of thing happen since the '60s, to finally get things in gear.

 

[Gordon_4]

Today I learned that the school lunch programs we Americans are all familiar with today was spearheaded by none other than the Black Panthers:

How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government | HISTORY

The Panthers’ popular breakfast programs put pressure on political leaders to feed children before school.

www.history.com

Of course, good ol' J. Edgar Hoover wasn't having any of that goodwill towards the Black Panthers, and ordered law enforcement to go in and destroy the program. But enough people had seen the results to prod the USDA, which had been trying to make that kind of thing happen since the '60s, to finally get things in gear.

I learned the same thing - the brief version - from this episode of Tasting History.