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Unfortunately, all the actual tea bags are usually plastic. The wrapping is probably a small percentage of the plastic in this product.
by jon_adler 1y ago
Unfortunately, all the actual tea bags are usually plastic. The wrapping is probably a small percentage of the plastic in this product.
- gmac 1y agoThis is also an issue for microplastics ingestion. In the UK, teabags are increasingly made of PLA.
- mcv 1y agoI'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most recent change to my tea bags was to remove the staple so they could go in organic waste.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoYou'd be surprised how paper-like the plastic bags appear to be.
- ahartmetz 1y agoCould try burning a tiny piece and check how it behaves and smells.
- mcv 1y agoI doubt the advice would be to throw them in the organic waste if it was plastic.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoSome plastics can go in the organic waste bins, such as the organic waste bin bags.
- ddoeth 1y agoWhile they can go in the organic waste bins, they still get sorted out at the end because they don't degrade fast enough. Study from Australia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X24005531 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X2... Article from California: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-are-actually-garbage/ https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-a... German Trash Company: https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall
- AlecSchueler 1y agoSure and it might be that the teabags are also being sorted out.
- WithinReason 1y agoTeapigs pyramids are made of cornstarch
- pfdietz 1y agoWhy can't staples go in organic waste? They go into my compost pile and will rust. Iron is like 5% of average crustal rocks and is abundant in soils.