General Chat

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

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

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 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 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?