I decided to have a green tea because it’s healthier than soda. It’s healthier, right?
The first time I saw a bag like that, I was shocked as well. Seems like just the worst idea to use plastic to create tea bags. Turns out it is and they weren’t made out of plastic. It’s a starch based fiber that is biodegradable. I don’t think you could have plastic tea bags here in the EU in any case. I’d wager yours isn’t plastic either. Yeah, so you probably got mildly infuriated over nothing, just like I did the first time I saw one of these 🤷
https://youtu.be/limwsUnH4iQ?feature=shared
Regular teabags are sometimes made using non-biodegradable plastic - be sure to buy those made with this starch based plastic. When I first saw biodegradable teabags I was surprised, I thought teabags were made of paper. Not so, it turns out.
I’m glad they stopped using metal staples on them too. That always bugged me.
God I hate those. Paper tea bags you can toss into the fireplace or in the compost depending on the time of year, but those plastic ones you can’t do anything but chuck them into the trash.
Almost all teabags contain plastic. They’re heat sealed. Remember, if you’re old enough, they used to be stapled closed?
Yep capitalism is awesome.
Staples have glue holding them in a cartridge ugh… I’d rather have heat sealed nylon(more durable) tea bags
I’d rather just buy loose leaf and use a washable strainer. It’s generally less expensive and higher quality too.
I just use a reusable filter for loose tea. Oxo makes a nice one.
Yup, tea cakes with a reusable metal filter. Each cake is wrapped in paper, not plastic. Then you just use a metal mesh filter.
It’s not plastic
Laughs in loose leaf
I drink tea from similar bags and they look the same but they are actually biodegradable SOILON bags, maybe this one is too?
Some brands now use plant or cellulose derived material for their tea bags. Though they still use plastic for the outer wrappers, which is a bit annoying.
now
Now?! That used to be the default until some hipster companies started fucking shit up with their shitty plastic pyramid bags.
That’s what some hotels offer for their “Tea making facilities”. We bring tea bags from home which are prefectly recyclable, even better since they don’t use a metal clip anymore, but use stiching to connect the thread to the tea bag and the label.
I was in a supermarket recently, and looked at the tea selection (I usually buy it at a more specialized place). There were almost no options without bags; quite disappointing.
Of course it’s healthier. Did you put 40 sugar cubes in your cup of tea? Probably not.
The secret aroma is the melted microplastics
Are you impressed by the shape? Does it make you feel upper middle class that your tea bags are this shape? Poor people don’t drink tea made with bags of this shape! It’s fancy! Now drink your microplastics!
Sometimes I forget that people on Lemmy have trouble parsing brutally obvious sarcasm/low level satire.
