• @Zitronensaft@feddit.de
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    3410 months ago

    Paper tea bags usually contain polypropylene or another plastic so they can be heat sealed shut. They aren’t fully compostable.

    • HeartyBeast
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      3610 months ago

      Certainly in the UK, there has been a real push for fully compostible teabags. Clipper Tea and PG are fully compostable. Yorkshire Tea was not, last time I looked - which is why I stopped drinking it.

      • @accideath
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        1710 months ago

        Or: a reusable metal tea strainer. You just need to take 2 minutes every time to clean it but they’re no excess waste whatsoever

        • Big P
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          310 months ago

          I tried this but I always end up with tea leaves floating around my cup

          • @accideath
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            310 months ago

            Then you either need a strainer with a finer mesh or smaller holes, or courser ground tea. I‘d recommend the former. My strainer has very small holes and at worst there’s a bit of tea power at the bottom of my cup

    • Carighan Maconar
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      310 months ago

      Though I bought relatively large paper-based filters before that explicitly said they were fully compostable. And since loose tea beats bagged tea 90% of the time anyways…

    • @Sludgehammer
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      110 months ago

      Well shit. I guess I’m gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.

        • @Sludgehammer
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          10 months ago

          Don’t I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound of engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.