Yorkshire Tea Bags 3.25 Kg (1040 tea bags)

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WRAP UK doesn’t recommend home composting and we haven’t yet seen any good studies showing that this PLA part will break down in the sort of time gardeners would think is reasonable. The conditions on home compost heaps just don’t seem quite right – UK temperatures don’t get hot enough to fully compost our tea bags. 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. Things were going great again, and then the pandemic hit. Covid has brought big changes for factories, and keeping our staff distanced meant keeping production simple. You’ll have seen pictures of panic buying and empty shelves, and it was really all we could do to keep tea flowing out the door fast enough to get it to people.

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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.ReservedSlotData.TimeSlot.DayOfWeekString}}, {{ReservedSlotData.TimeSlotReservation.Day}} {{ReservedSlotData.TimeSlotReservation.DisplayMonth}} What about people who don’t have a food waste or garden waste bin, or whose council doesn’t accept tea bags in garden waste bins? We're replacing the oil-based plastic that seals our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called polylactic acid, or PLA. Loading... {{SelectedStore.TimeSlot.DayOfWeekString}}, {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.Day}} {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.DisplayMonth}}

An update on plant-based tea bags - Yorkshire Tea

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. 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 Pop these plant-based tea bags in your food or garden waste bin for council composting. Please recycle the cardboard box too. From the classic British cuppa to a guilt-free decaff and tasty camomile to fruity infusions you, your guests and staff can banish thirst for good. Our tea experts taste brew after brew to make sure it's always perfect. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

Composting generally involves the sort of big composting facility (known as “industrial composting”) that councils use for food waste and garden waste. 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. You might’ve seen PLA teabags called "biodegradable", "plastic free" or "home compostable". You can read a bit more about why we don’t use those terms below.