I decided to have a green tea because it’s healthier than soda. It’s healthier, right?
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Why don’t you just drink water? Soda is extremely high in sugar. You might as well eat sugar with a spoon all day
Challenge accepted.
Laughs in loose leaf
Loose leaf club!
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I can give you one more that can make me seem either a lot superior or a lot inferior in the tea snob world.
- Loose leaf
- Collected and fermented by myself
- But it’s not from the tea plant, it’s herbal tea
That’s fine. I prefer tea mixtures most of the time anyways.
Mixing green tea (like Gunpowder) with some moroccan mint (add sugar to your liking) tastest mighty fine. And the mint grows just fine in a pot on the balkony.
Oh yes, Tuareg tea is great! Especially when the nana/spearmint is fresh!
Tuareg tea
Didn’t know that it was called like that. Nice! :D
Also, I should try to get some nice fitting glasses. Just for fun.
Usually people in north Africa use small tea glasses and a simple chinese teapot made from sheet metal for making Tuareg tea.
Well, yes. That would be what those glasses and tea pots actually look like.
But some colourful stuff is more fun.
Of course it’s healthier. Did you put 40 sugar cubes in your cup of tea? Probably not.
The secret aroma is the melted microplastics
God I hate those. Paper tea bags you can toss into the fireplace or in the compost depending on the time of year, but those plastic ones you can’t do anything but chuck them into the trash.
Paper tea bags usually contain polypropylene or another plastic so they can be heat sealed shut. They aren’t fully compostable.
Buy loose tea and tea bags.
Test tea bags by burning them. No residue? They should be free of plastics.Or: a reusable metal tea strainer. You just need to take 2 minutes every time to clean it but they’re no excess waste whatsoever
Well shit. I guess I’m gonna have a lot of micro plastics in my compost then.
Spoiler, you already do whether or not you compost those.
Don’t I know it. My house is right next to a highway and was apparently placed by someone who loved the sound of engine breaking. I probably have tire rubber dust settling on everything outside.
Certainly in the UK, there has been a real push for fully compostible teabags. Clipper Tea and PG are fully compostable. Yorkshire Tea was not, last time I looked - which is why I stopped drinking it.
Huh, TIL.
They’re now using plant based PLA, at least.TIL too, thanks
Almost all teabags contain plastic. They’re heat sealed. Remember, if you’re old enough, they used to be stapled closed?
Yep capitalism is awesome.
Staples have glue holding them in a cartridge ugh… I’d rather have heat sealed nylon(more durable) tea bags
I’d rather just buy loose leaf and use a washable strainer. It’s generally less expensive and higher quality too.
Some still are. Bigelow I think.
But loose leaf tea is much better quality anyway and avoids the issue of what’s in the bag entirely. They also have ceramic filters so you can completely avoid having plastic in contact with hot water
Yeah although a lot of it comes excessively packaged too.
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Loose leaf is excessively packaged? Normally when I buy loose leaf I just get a tin that’s full of tea and nothing else.
I often find that the tins come individually wrapped and have a plastic seal. They’re also just like pointlessly small and wasteful metal containers that aren’t reused. Idk it’s the whole world really. Better than bagged for sure, just also frustrating.
Tea itself is often exploitative and I just want to fill up a 2 L jar with it :(
Do worry, there is micro plastic in the tea and in the water
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The first time I saw a bag like that, I was shocked as well. Seems like just the worst idea to use plastic to create tea bags. Turns out it is and they weren’t made out of plastic. It’s a starch based fiber that is biodegradable. I don’t think you could have plastic tea bags here in the EU in any case. I’d wager yours isn’t plastic either. Yeah, so you probably got mildly infuriated over nothing, just like I did the first time I saw one of these 🤷
I’m glad they stopped using metal staples on them too. That always bugged me.
I can’t really find a source for it, but I remember the EU banning plastic in tea bags quite recently, a few years ago at most. Here in the Netherlands, a lot of tea bags contain(ed) plastic as some kind of sealant.
Also, a lot of tea contains sugar, for no good reason whatsoever.
Also, a lot of tea contains sugar
In the form of fruit or added? If it’s the latter, they will have messed up something as simple as tea even further. When they started packaging them in airtight plastic (preventing one from smelling what you are considering to buy) and wrap every single tea bag in plastic, I already got mad.
Added sugar, that is. A lot of tea bags contain ‘aroma’, according to the ingredient list. However, this ‘aroma’ can be 60-70% sugar.
It should be clearly labeled then. Also in the nutritional information it should be clearly stated (pure tea is 0% carbs, 0% sugar).
I don’t think you can hide your sugar as “aroma”
Tic Tacs say 0g sugar in the nutrition facts, even though they’re mostly sugar. They can do this because they aren’t required to report quantities of sugar below 0.5g, but the serving size is 1 tic tac or, conveniently, 0.49g.
That’s a US thing I think, which doesn’t make sense btw.
In Europe you are required to report the nutrition facts per 100g. Any other size is optional. In Italy Tic-Tacs have 94.5g of sugar per 100g of product https://www.ferrero.it/Tic-Tac#expand-jump-1
So if you are unsure about the nutrition facts, check the European website
You definitely shouldn’t be allowed to hide it like that, no. Unfortunately, they can (Dutch source).
The nutritional information does however state that there’s sugar. Even though the ingredient list does not.
there’s still a decent chance it’s only industrially biodegradable: at higher temperatures and pressures than a good ol’ home compost pile normally ever gets near. It could still be a bit infuriating.
This is almost always the case. If it’s biodegradable at room temperature and pressure, it’ll be degrading once you get it.
We’re probably best off converting most of our things into industrially biodegradable products, and then having our waste go to composting plants instead of landfills.
It’s dope having municipal compost pickup, guys.
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Regular teabags are sometimes made using non-biodegradable plastic - be sure to buy those made with this starch based plastic. When I first saw biodegradable teabags I was surprised, I thought teabags were made of paper. Not so, it turns out.
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Is that even tea? It looks like broccoli and carrots.
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Soup is just vegetable and bone tea
Tea is just a different kind of vegetable soup.
bone tea
bone apple tea
Op out just making dumpling tea
How do you know it’s plastic? I doubt that it is. Fabric can be made airproof by wetting it. That’s how you can use your pants as a life vest too.
Micro plastic stew
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Plastic tea bags are really disappointing. It’s not enough that plastic is everywhere thanks to tire dust, I have to drink it, too? Cool.
At home, I use loose leaf and a metal strainer. Makes less waste, and there’s no plastic.
I have to drink it, too?
If it makes you feel any better, there’s so much microplastic everywhere that there was going to be plastic in that water regardless of what the tea bag was made of.
And there’s not even really anything you can do about it. Reverse osmosis should be able to get rid of microplastics but the fucking containers for the filters are plastic and the lines running between them are plastic so they’re just going to reintroduce microplastics even after filtering!
There was a recent study showing that boiling water could actually break down and remove a surprising number of microplastics so I guess for making tea you might be a little better off but still
Boiling plus filtering (like the metal grid filter in many kettles)
The metal grid is nowhere near fine enough for microplastics. It’s like trying to filter out a car through gaps the size of the grand canyon
That’s a little hyperbolic. There’s a lot of mechanics at play in generating microplastics. Fabrics have microscopically thin strands of plastics. It should be no surprise that rubbing up against thousands of tiny strands every time we move and wash synthetic fabric clothes releases many tiny particles. Plus clothes have to deal with UV degradation making the plastic more brittle.
The plastic components in an RO system should be specced to not leach plasticizers. They should have smooth walls and laminar flow. There shouldn’t be much to abrade the plastic surfaces and shed particles. They may not be perfect, but water from an RO system will have orders of magnitude fewer microplastics. So an RO system still “does something about it.”
We do need to address the problem, but I wouldn’t want people to avoid beneficial remediation just because it has some plastic components.
Tire dust? Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic. A great majority of micro plastics that end up in enviroment and in your body are shed from plastic fabrics. If you’re really worried about limiting plastic consumption check your clothing tags for polyester and nylon. Return to cotton, hemp, and linen.
Synthetic rubber like SBR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene-butadiene
Tires and brakes are a major source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17201-9
Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic
Both are made of polymers.
Rubber, also known as latex, is naturally occurring polymer from the sap of a specific species of tree.
“Synthetic rubber”, is in fact, plastic.
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I just got into tea and have had a rough time finding a brand to buy that is loose leaf. They always end up being tea bags like this. Any suggestions for brands?
Loose tea isn’t very common on supermarket shelves. If you live near a store that has a bulk section, then they might have loose tea in bulk. I end up ordering online from Stash or Harney & Sons
Just search loose tea leaves in your mother tongue and you’ll find some. Ordering online might be interesting as well these days
Isn’t it cheaper to buy loose tea and use a tea ball? Does that avoid this entire problem?
I bought a giant bag of lapsang souchon and usually just use my french press. I also bought like a hundred empty paper tea pouches that have alson been good for making spiced apple juice
Some brands now use plant or cellulose derived material for their tea bags. Though they still use plastic for the outer wrappers, which is a bit annoying.
now
Now?! That used to be the default until some hipster companies started fucking shit up with their shitty plastic pyramid bags.
