PG Tips String and Tag One Cup Everyday Tea Bags (Pack of 100) 10462707

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Hernandez LM, Xu EG, Larsson HC, Tahara R, Maisuria VB, Tufenkji N (25 September 2019). "Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea". Environmental Science & Technology. 53 (21): 12300–12310. Bibcode: 2019EnST...5312300H. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b02540. PMID 31552738. S2CID 202761863. Cotton muslin teabags are unbleached and are said to bring a richer flavor to the taste and aroma of tea. Anyway, the change is not obvious unless you observe it in great detail.

If you want to know more, do read my guide on what is PLA and is it biodegradable for a more detailed deep dive. These Mao Feng tea bags are a great introduction to the world of green tea. Mao Feng, a high-grade tea leaf variety, produces a light drink, with gentle fruit notes reminiscent of peach and apricot. Neal’s Yard PLA-free teabags are made from natural abaca (a plant from the banana family) and are oxygen bleached. This method is chlorine-free and kind to the environment. As such these plastic-free teabags can go straight into your home composter. Nemi You might be wondering why there is a need for plastic to be found in teabags. Well, plastic (polypropylene to be exact) is added to the paper teabag to help heat seal them during manufacture.How much damage can a teabag do, you may be wondering? Well, one teabag alone will do very little damage. However, when you consider that in the UK alone we drink more than 60 billion cups of tea a year, then it’s a lot of teabags and a whole lot more microplastic. PG Tips reclaims number one position with pyramid teabag". Marketing Week. 22 April 1999 . Retrieved 4 May 2021.

What we know is that microplastics are found in the soil, in the sea, in our drinking water, inside fish and other animals we eat, and even in humans. When microplastics are in the food we eat and the water we drink, this means we are ingesting plastic, and the long-term effects of this are currently unknown.The good news is that since 2017 tea manufacturers have started to remove polypropylene from their teabags. Teabag Terminology Smithers, Rebecca (2018-02-28). "PG tips announces switch to plastic-free fully biodegradable teabags". the Guardian . Retrieved 2018-03-26.