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. Yorkie Mom Gift, Dog Lover Gift, Dog to Mom Gift, Yorkie to Mom Gift, Mothers Day Dog Gift, Coffee Lovers Gift, Tea Drinker Gift, Drink Gift

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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. I Love Yorkies Coffee Mug, Yorkshire Terrier, Head, Tea, Hot Coco, Chocolate, Cake, Sweet Treat, Novelty, White, Gift, 11oz We're replacing the oil-based plastic that seals our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called polylactic acid, or PLA.

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. Yorkshire, Yorkshire Souvenir, Hand Painted Originals, Wall Art, A4 Prints, Wall Decor, Home Decor, Art Prints, Birthday Gifts, Unique Gifts PLA is a newer form of plastic, made from plants (like cornstarch) instead of fossil fuels, which can be industrially composted by local councils. It’s the material that most of the UK tea industry is switching to or has already switched to. Loading... {{SelectedStore.TimeSlot.DayOfWeekString}}, {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.Day}} {{SelectedStore.TimeSlotReservation.DisplayMonth}} 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.

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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?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”