The New ‘Green’ Tea: Co-op Brews Up Solution To Plastic Tea Bags

The Co-op is brewing up a fully biodegradable paper tea bag, making it the first retailer to find a solution to the problem of plastic waste caused by the nation’s favourite beverage. The convenience retailer’s famous own-brand 99 tea will be developed without polypropylene, which is an industry-wide method used to enable teabags to hold their shape. The move could save nine tonnes of plastic every year from being dumped into household rubbish and compost collections. The Co-op, which sells around 4.6 million boxes of tea annually (around 367 million…

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Drink to your Health this January, National Hot Tea Month

I wanted to include this because I am a big tea drinker, but I think it also gives us a chance to think about how some producers treat their workforce and about the importance of iniatives such as Fairtrade when considering your tea. The holidays may be over but there’s still much to celebrate this January with National Hot Tea Month and the third annual National Hot Tea Day on January 12, 2018. The Tea Council of the USA encourages tea-lovers across the nation to take this opportuniTEA to share the unique ways they like…

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