General Chat

I don't use tea-bags at home although there were always some available for Fred to make himself a cup of tea. Because I don't drink coffee, I might drink a cup of tea made with a tea bag if I have to but it would not be my preference..

Talking to somebody else who uses loose tea, I asked her if she felt she could also taste the tea-bag. She replied that she had used tea bags for a long time until she noticed that one she had thrown on to the garden two years previously was still the same as when she had thrown it.

This made me wonder just how ecologically sound they might be.Are there huge numbers of used ones in landfill that are not decomposing?

I used to put them in the compost bin. After a year or so they had mostly gone but the were small pieces recognisable as having been part of a tea bag.

Now the council collect them as part of the food waste collection.

This is what happens to it:
"We send food waste to an anaerobic digestion plant. Anaerobic Digestion uses microorganisms to break down the food waste in an enclosed system that doesn’t contain oxygen.
This process produces a bio-gas, which is used to generate electricity. It also creates a nutrient-rich soil that farmers can use for their fields to help grow more food."

I put my used teabags round the edges of my hanging baskets
to keep the moisture in

I only drink Punjana tea they come in bags
Cant stand slimy Earl Grey or Tetley's pee bags :-D :-D

I have loose tea for myself but hubby has teabags, I have long wondered my “they” haven’t come up with tea in teabags or the material itself is bad for you, can cause cancer etc etc, everything else is. :-D

Apparently, from the following article:
"a number of the UK’s most popular tea bag brands use polypropylene, a sealing plastic, to fasten the tea bags and ensure that they hold their shape."

There are moves afoot to remove the plastic from tea bags.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-is-there-plastic-in-my-teabag_uk_5a71a6abe4b0be822ba1ea9d

Seem to recall a lady in our works canteen making tea in a urn using a tea bag...looked like an old linen sock, to me...

Only the truly posh would know what a linen sock looked like!

I use Tetley tea bags, three in the cup pint mug, then throw them out. Used to like
Yorkshire tea distinct taste. Haven't had it in years.

You would need at least 3 David
Try Punjana you would only need one :-D

Truth told Joy I've never heard of it or seen it in the shop.

I have never seen it either. I think it might be a northern thing,

They are made by Thompsons Blended in Ireland

a real strong cuppa :-D

Whatever happened to Stewarts Tea ?

Maggie is correct, tea bags contain plastic and the bags themselves don't degrade.

If you compost them you need to cut them, tip the tea out and put the bag in general rubbish.

Or if you have an open fire, use them for fuel.

My friend soaks dried used teabags in paraffin and uses them to fire up the barby.
Regarding anaerobic digesters, a lot of the stuff that ends up in them is not biodegradable, and ends up on the farmer's fields. Last season while beating, one field looked as though someone had gone around emptying bags of rubbish over the entire field.

What a fab Idea Bob :-D :-D

..ponders where she can dry out tea bags..... :-D

On the washing line Maggie lol

I use loose tea and make a pot of tea in one of the old fashioned brown teapots

Anyone who comes says oooooh yes please when I ask would you like a cup of tea
Get told we love your tea you make a proper cup!!

Am a coffee drinker personally but hubby liked his tea but only one cup so he used a tea bag.

I used to put them in the compost bin and then later in the garden waste recycling when that was introduced

Even though we use pg tips the real tea tastes so much nicer than one made with the tea bag

Morning all....I have never drank a cup of tea in 87 years..Probably tried it when I was a nipper but it's always milk or coffee....Seems to be mostly coffee these days...My darling wife (now departed) always had loose tea..She wouldn't have anything to do with teabags..We still keep loose tea and the strainer by the teapot...When we went to any of the children's houses she would get loose tea in a special china cup...
Got to go shopping now...Bye all.....L Y L.....LES... <3 <3