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Your daily cup, without the plastic pods and bags.
Coffee & Tea
Some silky mesh tea bags are plastic, such as nylon or PET, and in lab tests hot water made them shed tiny particles. A steel infuser has nothing to shed.
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Exptolii snap ball 3-pk
Silky pyramid (mesh) tea bagsswap to Steel tea infuserCoffee & Tea
A new plastic kettle can release billions of nanoplastics per cup on its first boil.
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Cosori glass kettle, no plastic contact
Plastic kettleswap to Glass kettleCoffee & Tea
In a 2025 UK study, coffee brewed from plastic pods carried microplastics of the same kind of plastic as each pod, one of its authors reported. A steel refillable pod takes the plastic pod out of the brewer you already have.
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NESSUS 304 stainless steel refillable K-cups, Keurig 1.0, 4-pack
Plastic coffee podsswap to Steel refillable podCoffee & Tea
The simplest plastic-free coffee maker is a glass pour-over: hot water touches only glass and the paper filter, not the plastic parts of many drip machines.
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Chemex Classic 10-cup glass pour-over
Plastic drip coffee makerswap to Glass pour-overFact: Particles from plastic tea bags can end up in the tea, but a recount found far fewer than the 2019 headline. Germany’s risk agency says a health risk is unlikely.
Read the fact check: Do tea bags have plastic in them? Some do. How to tellClear the filters to see all 4 coffee & tea swaps.
Clear filtersYour daily cup is hot water meeting whatever it’s brewed in, often several times a day. Lab studies found a new polypropylene kettle shedding nanoplastics into boiling water, and plastic mesh tea bags releasing large numbers of particles at brewing temperature, though the tea bag count has been questioned in print. Coffee brewed from plastic pods carried microplastics in a 2025 study, and what that means for health isn’t known yet. These swaps move the hot part of the routine onto glass and stainless steel: a glass kettle with a steel lid and filter, a steel tea infuser, and a steel refillable pod or a steel French press in place of plastic pods. They also cut the waste from single-use pods and bags. Each swap notes any small plastic part we couldn’t avoid, and links to the studies.
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