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Takeaway coffee cups release thousands of microplastic particles

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par Xiangyu Liu, Research Fellow, School of Environment and Science and Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University

It’s 7:45am. You grab a takeaway coffee from your local cafe, wrap your hands around the warm cup, take a sip, and head to the office.

To most of us, that cup feels harmless – just a convenient tool for caffeine delivery. However, if that cup is made of plastic, or has a thin plastic lining, there is a high chance it’s shedding thousands of tiny plastic fragments directly into your drink.

In Australia alone, we use a staggering 1.45…

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