you guys if you drink starbucks watch this so that you get your coffee and starbucks let's talk about those a paper cup by nature should absorb water if it's not absorbing water then that means there must be a barrier in between the paper in the liquid and that barrier is polyethylene plastic a study found that in fifteen minutes of contact with hot liquids these twenty five thousand microplastic particles into your cup but no one's questioning this no one's really thinking about it because it's just part of our daily life