Yorkshire Tea Bags 3.25 Kg (1040 tea bags)

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Pop these plant-based tea bags in your food or garden waste bin for council composting. Please recycle the cardboard box too. If you don’t have either of these, you can snip open your used tea bags, compost the tea inside at home, and put the bag itself in your refuse bin. If you don’t want to do that, the alternative is to put your tea bag in your refuse bin. So we paused the PLA rollout at around 20% and it stayed paused until around October. Now, at last, we’re on the final stretch. Then we called in Sheffield University, who helped us study the tea bag paper. We used what we learned to work with the supplier to redevelop it.

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That’s why we recommend sending plant-based tea bags for industrial composting by your local council (via your food or garden waste bin). You can also snip open your used tea bags, compost the tea inside at home, and put the bag itself in the appropriate bin. Composting generally involves the sort of big composting facility (known as “industrial composting”) that councils use for food waste and garden waste. Plant-based Yorkshire Tea bags have well and truly landed! From now on, the tea bags inside every box of regular Yorkshire Tea, Yorkshire Gold, Yorkshire Tea Decaf and Yorkshire Tea for Hard Water will be plant-based. When we say our tea's proper, we mean it's really good quality and it's kind to people and planet. And, perhaps most importantly, it always tastes lovely.

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The truth is that PLA tea bags are really only better than oil-based plastic if they go in the right bin: garden waste or food waste bins, for industrial composting by your local council.

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We regularly work with companies who need wholesale quantities of our tea bags for use in things like mailshots and marketing campaigns. So give our team a call to discuss the options. If you don’t yet have a bin to industrially compost your tea bags, we’re really sorry. If you’re willing to, you can snip open your used tea bags and compost the tea inside at home; otherwise, please put your tea bags in your refuse bin. What else is a tea bag made from? You can pop the used plant-based tea bags in kerbside food waste and garden waste bins to go off to the local council for industrial composting. There’s more info below in the FAQ By weight, 95% of a Yorkshire Tea bag is tea and 5% is the bag. About ¾ of that bag is natural fibres like wood pulp, rayon (made from wood pulp) and abaca (a kind of banana plant) which make a kind of paper. The Government is working on timings for all councils to collect food waste and we expect most households to have these by 2025 at the latest. Until then, sadly not everyone will be able to compost our PLA tea bags. Like a lot of new materials created to replace the less sustainable stuff we’ve all relied on for ages, PLA’s far from perfect.Technically, but nobody really knows yet what the timescales are for PLA to biodegrade naturally. So WRAP UK advises against using the word “biodegradable” saying: "It might mislead users to think that something will automatically biodegrade in a reasonable timeframe”