Yorkshire Tea Bags 3.25 Kg (1040 tea bags)

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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. By weight, 95% of a Yorkshire Tea bag is tea and 5% is the bag. About ¾ of that bag is natural fibres like wood pulp, rayon (made from wood pulp) and abaca (a kind of banana plant) which make a kind of paper. We're replacing the oil-based plastic that seals our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called polylactic acid, or PLA. Plant-based Yorkshire Tea bags have well and truly landed! From now on, the tea bags inside every box of regular Yorkshire Tea, Yorkshire Gold, Yorkshire Tea Decaf and Yorkshire Tea for Hard Water will be plant-based.

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Technically, but nobody really knows yet what the timescales are for PLA to biodegrade naturally. So WRAP UK advises against using the word “biodegradable” saying: "It might mislead users to think that something will automatically biodegrade in a reasonable timeframe” 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. 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?

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. If you don’t have either of these, you can snip open your used tea bags, compost the tea inside at home, and put the bag itself in your refuse bin. If you don’t want to do that, the alternative is to put your tea bag in your refuse bin.

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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. Rainbow Yorkshire Terrier Dog Coffee Mug 11oz Dog Pet Lover Gift Dad Grandpa Mom Sibling Friend Holiday Christmas Birthday Present Yorkie The Government is working on timings for all councils to collect food waste and we expect most households to have these by 2025 at the latest. Until then, sadly not everyone will be able to compost our PLA tea bags. Like a lot of new materials created to replace the less sustainable stuff we’ve all relied on for ages, PLA’s far from perfect. 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 FAQLoading... {{SelectedStore.TimeSlot.DayOfWeekString}}, {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.Day}} {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.DisplayMonth}} ReservedSlotData.TimeSlot.DayOfWeekString}}, {{ReservedSlotData.TimeSlotReservation.Day}} {{ReservedSlotData.TimeSlotReservation.DisplayMonth}}