Biodegradable Tea Bags

Tea bags containing plastic are typically only 70 80 biodegradable the majority of the tea bag is made from biodegradable paper but the remaining plastic won t decompose if you put it in the compost bin.

Biodegradable tea bags. 100 meaning you can pop them straight in the compost with a clear conscience. The tea bags themselves are completely biodegradable and the packaging they come in is made using paper and biodegradable pe and is oxo biodegradable. On their website they say. We can confirm that all of our tea bags are now 100 biodegradable.

Compostable and biodegradable tea bags are not the same things. It s confusing because so many times compostable and biodegradable are words that are used interchangeably to sell us so many different kinds of products. Depending on which company s tea you re drinking the bags could be entirely 100 biodegradable and perfect for your compost or they may not be which isn t as much of a definitive answer as you were looking for but ultimately it really depends on the brand. Soilon is a corn starch which incorporates biomass material polylactic acid originating from plants.

This was one of our main goals for doing honest business last year so we re feeling pretty chuffed right now. Check out this handy faq. Get it as soon as fri aug 14. Just as compostable and biodegradable are not the same things.

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. Our commitment to continually reducing the impact of our tea on the environment. The tea bags include loose leaf tea which makes an excellent brew. According to tea co uk brits drink 60 2 billion cups of tea a year 96 of which made using tea bags.

Our switch to biodegradable tea bags and the start of removing the plastic film from our boxes. From 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. Which tea bags are biodegradable and which ones aren t. Like most of the teabags in the uk our teabags are made with about 80 paper fibre which is fully compostable along with the tea leaves contained in the bag.