Sustainability is something that is really important to us and we’re working closely with our tea filter paper suppliers. We are currently trialling alternative options for heat sealing our teabags, using plant-based alternatives that are fully biodegradable. A small amount of polypropylene is used in teabags to allow the teabag to be heat sealed. Barry’s Tea – “Our tea bags are not currently compostable.Tea Bags with Plasticisers / PLA Plant Based Plastic Tetley – They have confirmed their stringed tea bags (pyramid and regular) are plastic free.The only part that has a little plastic is the envelope wrapper, because it helps keep it fresher longer, but they are working on an alternative substrate for that.
NATURES CUPPA FREE
They try to keep all their packaging as completely plastic free as possible so it’s 100% recyclable and use veggie inks so it’s also compostable.
Qi Tea – Their tea bags are completely plastic free.They were the first company to ever use organic strings to hold our teabags together without the need of a metal staple or polypropylene. They don’t need to use polypropylene to hold their teabags together and these are therefore free from plastic. Pukka – They use a simple stitch of organic cotton and a unique folding process.That makes sense, because they are closed with a metal staple. Nature’s Cuppa Organic – Eatrite Australasia Pty Ltd (the manufacturer) responded that their tea bags are made with unbleached paper, and no polymers nor plasticisers.Lyons – their packs of 40, 80 and 160 teabags are plastic-free, but the large 240 pyramid-bag aren’t.Lipton – Their Quality Black and Intense traditional tea bags are made from Manilla hemp and cellulose fibres.The teabag is completely compostable along with their envelope and the boxes are recyclable. Higher Living Teas – Their teabags are made out of unbleached paper with an organic cotton string stitched into the paper to form the teabag, therefore there’s no plastic.The tea bags are fastened with a knot in the string, there is no glue or staple on the tea bag, and they are a great choice if you have any concerns about plastics.” We offer a variety of certified organic teas in them. Harney & Sons – “Our paper tea bags are compostable, oxygen bleached with a method that does not produce dioxins, there is no epichlorohydrin, PET, or PLA in our paper tea bags.Dilmah Organic: only the organic tea range tea bags are free of plastic.The answers were provided by the manufacturers or we found the information on their websites: Plastic Free Tea Bags Here a small guide to some of the most available and favourite brands in Australia and other English speaking countries. We couldn’t believe that incorporating plastic in tea bags wasn’t tested for migration before engineering them, without even mentioning that fact that they are of course not biodegradable.įrom now on, ask the brand of your prefered tea if they manufacture the tea bags using plastic or even better for you & the environment, switch completely to loose leaf tea.
Posted by BBC Two on Tuesday, 18 July 2017Īre you shocked? Yes, we were too. How a teabag is made | Inside the Factory
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