I’m on a weekend vacation and forgot to bring my tea and the international grocery didn’t have it, so I settled for Darjeeling. I can barely notice the difference. It’s so subtle that it might as well just be a different tea brand.
I’m on a weekend vacation and forgot to bring my tea and the international grocery didn’t have it, so I settled for Darjeeling. I can barely notice the difference. It’s so subtle that it might as well just be a different tea brand.
Tea bags – depending upon your locality – are also a large source of micro plastic consumption. I’ve switched to loose leaf but it’s ridiculously expensive and very worse.
Microplastic? I thought teabags were quite organic. Do you have a source on being microplastic?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940 https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/health/microplastics-tea-bags-study-scn-scli-intl/index.html
It’s a subject I follow more closely than most I bother with.
Oh, those “premium” ones. Yeah, those are clearly plastic. Premium cancer dispensers.
But the… oh, yeah, even the “normal ones” are paper fiber “sealed with plastic”. Sometimes biodegradable, sometimes not, and sometimes not plastic.Amazing. Learned something new again and how I’m being poisoned by my lovely tea containers. Ain’t the world grand?
Sounds like the same study in both articles? And the BBC says it was specifically to ‘premium’ plastic tea bags?
The fabric ones should be fine then?
Edit: sealed with PLA which is industrially compostable, but not home compostable : https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/our-packaging No mention of how bad it is to consume.
I’d expect (and from experience is the case) loose leaf to be cheaper, since it requires less packaging.
“Tea” inside tea bags is just dust from the tea factory floors. Micro plastics are the least of your concern.