Buy loose tea and tea bags.
Test tea bags by burning them. No residue? They should be free of plastics.
Comment on Plastic tea bags
Zitronensaft@feddit.de 8 months agoPaper tea bags usually contain polypropylene or another plastic so they can be heat sealed shut. They aren’t fully compostable.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
accideath@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or: a reusable metal tea strainer. You just need to take 2 minutes every time to clean it but they’re no excess waste whatsoever
peter@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I tried this but I always end up with tea leaves floating around my cup
accideath@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then you either need a strainer with a finer mesh or smaller holes, or courser ground tea. I‘d recommend the former. My strainer has very small holes and at worst there’s a bit of tea power at the bottom of my cup
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s the mother fuckin T
Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They make disposable tea bags made of the same paper as coffee filters
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Though I bought relatively large paper-based filters before that explicitly said they were fully compostable. And since loose tea beats bagged tea 90% of the time anyways…
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well shit. I guess I’m gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 months ago
Spoiler, you already do whether or not you compost those.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months ago
Certainly in the UK, there has been a real push for fully compostible teabags. Clipper Tea and PG are fully compostable. Yorkshire Tea was not, last time I looked - which is why I stopped drinking it.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Huh, TIL.
They’re now using plant based PLA, at least.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months ago
TIL too, thanks
0x0@programming.dev 8 months ago
I’d except the land of Her Majesty the 5 o’clock Tea to be at the forefront of teatech.