Comment on Plastic tea bags

• HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, TIL.
    They’re now using plant based PLA, at least.

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    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL too, thanks

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d except the land of Her Majesty the 5 o’clock Tea to be at the forefront of teatech.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Buy loose tea and tea bags.
  Test tea bags by burning them. No residue? They should be free of plastics.

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  • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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

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    • peter@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I tried this but I always end up with tea leaves floating around my cup

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      • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s the mother fuckin T

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They make disposable tea bags made of the same paper as coffee filters

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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…

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well shit. I guess I’m gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spoiler, you already do whether or not you compost those.

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    • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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