Teabags

This is true even of organic tea bags - not so organic as you might think.
I forgot to order tea bags so had to use a 2 year old pack of loose leaf tea. Certainly more economical and once you get used to quantities is good. I do have a special infuser insert tucked in the back of the cupboard so I don’t need a tea strainer.

I usually make tea with leaves, but MrA will only make it with bags. We have Ringtons and the bags completely disappear after a few weeks in the compost heap.

However a few months ago I acquired a taste for lemon and ginger tea and bought some tea pigs brand. It wasn’t long before the little bags started being excreted at the bottom of my compost bins

I do think this sort of research should be put into context.
So we ingest x micro-particles of plastic with every cup of tea made with a bag.

How many do we ingest when we eat a piece of cheese, or cake, or ham that’s been wrapped in plastic or clingfilm? Or milk that comes in plastic bottles? I think that’s possibly more worrying.

- and its such a nuisance having to cut them open to get the tea leaves out!

What is the point of teabags?

Making a pot of tea is quicker, more convenient, less wasteful, less expensive, the tea is tastier and you get more tea for your leaves.

I do occasionally use loose leaf and own two tea strainers but OH is the same and can't abide the bitty bit at the bottom even if I could predict the future with it.

As a matter of interest, which tea bags are plastic free?I was unaware of this.

toscalily

I'll take my chances with the teabags as I absolutely hate getting the tea leaf residue with my last drop of tea.

When I was a lass we used a tea strainer and left the last few drops in the teacup for fortune telling by the tea leaves..

We went to visit a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. They told us that the quality tea is sold loose leaf and the ‘dust’ goes into tea bags.

I'll take my chances with the teabags as I absolutely hate getting the tea leaf residue with my last drop of tea.

PamelaJ ??

the ethical consumer should anyone be interested.

Me too Furret. Fully compostable.

This is why I buy teabags guaranteed free from plastic.

I use loose leaf tea (Ceylon) at breakfast and Red Bush most other times. The RB loose leaves are very tiny and quite messy if any escape the spoon. DS has twice given me tins of tea bags at Christmas though now he uses nothing but loose leaf himself! They sit at the back of my worktop looking ornamental but rarely used.

You're right. Loose leaf in my next home delivery!