Is Drinking Hot Tea from Plastic Cups Unsafe Due to Chemical Leaching?

[Spathi]

TL;DR

...Besides that, it was found that the plastic releases nanoparticles into hot water:

I feel some strange discomfort when I drink hot tea from plastic cups; I prefer drinking it from glass cups. Maybe this can be explained that the plastic dissolves in hot water, and it is harmful for health?
If I am not mistaken, the syndiotactic polystyrene has a temperature of pyrolysis about 260 Celsius, so this is not the explanation. However, the polymerization in technology is usually not full, and the plastic cup can contain some remains of a monomer; also, as I heard, the plastic usually contains some additions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924224419300354

Besides that, it was found that the plastic releases nanoparticles into hot water:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c06768

So, I think it is not a good idea to drink hot tea from plastic cups. Is this problem described somewhere?
Maybe I should had created this thread in other section? But one of my questions is related to the harm of plastic for the health.

 

[jedishrfu]

Yeah, it appears to be a thing to avoid.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...risks-shows-study.aspx?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I tend to drink my tea from a metal LLBean camping mug. It retains the heat longer than a regular ceramic tea cup or glass cup.

 

[pinball1970]

Yeah, it appears to be a thing to avoid.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...risks-shows-study.aspx?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I tend to drink my tea from a metal LLBean camping mug. It retains the heat longer than a regular ceramic tea cup or glass cup.

You said camping mug I pictured this...

Also toxic heavy/reactive metals like Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Nickel, Zinc came to mind.

Click on your LLBEAN and it is made of stainless steel so you are good to go! ;)

 

[Rive]

Yeah, it appears to be a thing to avoid.

Yet from the linked article:

This study shows that careful consideration needs to be done before the promotion of replacements for bio-hazardous products and environmental pollutants. We have been quick to replace plastics cups and glasses with disposable paper cups

Plastics still seems to be way better than cheap disposable.

 

[jedishrfu]

I don't disagree. Sometimes, we throw the baby out with the bath water and replace him with an alligator.

 

[jedishrfu]

You said camping mug I pictured this...


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Also toxic heavy/reactive metals like Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Nickel, Zinc came to mind.

Click on your LLBEAN and it is made of stainless steel so you are good to go! ;)






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I started to worry a bit there but then remembered its stainless steel.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

old thread, but I found this interesting as I've started to replace all plastic kitchen and eat/drink ware with glass, wood, ceramic, silicone and stainless steel.

 

[Frabjous]

old thread, but I found this interesting as I've started to replace all plastic kitchen and eat/drink ware with glass, wood, ceramic, silicone and stainless steel.

A person I trust tries to avoid any situation where plastics come in contact with heat.

I have replaced my non-stick frying pans with a 10” carbon steel pan and a 12” cast iron pan. I have a cast iron because I want something with thermal mass although because of the weight, I got one of the lighter ones. The carbon steel is a Strata (triply ss-al-cs) which is really light and has even heating. I highly recommend it. I cook eggs in them all the time.