Cork students investigate: How much plastic is in your teabags?
ELLIE O’BYRNE reports on more of the fantastic projects at this year’s BT Young Scientist awards, which gets underway tomorrow. including projects on plastic in teabags and another on synchronised swimming. Transition year students at St Mary s High School in Midleton, Suzanne Dignam, Grace Rooney, and Anna Brenner with their science teacher Niamh Jones who have worked on their project on plastic in teabags for the BT Young Scientist Awards. Picture: Dan Linehan
Ellie O’Byrne
IT’S well known that, for Cork people, Barry’s Tea is the only real tea, but recent controversy around the fact that Barry’s tea-bags contain plastic has been a thorn in the side of tea-lovers who also love the environment.