Does Tazo Tea Bags Have Plastic In Them

Some tea companies are replacing traditional paper teabags with plastic ones but the new bags may be adding billions of tiny bits of plastic to your beverage a team from canada reports.

Does tazo tea bags have plastic in them. When our tea bags are made they re folded by our amazing machines and threaded with the string so we don t use any glue either. Luckily there are a number of tea bags which are plastic free. Mighty leaf teas now s owned by peet s 2. Their tea bags are not compostable.

Reach out to the brand of tea you currently drink and ask them if they seal their tea bags using plastic. Teavana starbucks celestial seasonings. And most of us tea drinkers choose tea bags rather than tea leaves 96 in fact. Brands with tea bags do contain plastic.

The bags contain plastic and i was told our current tea bag paper contains approximately 8 recycled plastic which acts as a binder to hold the paper together and therefore we cannot consider it to be fully biodegradable and compostable. Microplastics are invisible to the human eye picture. All in all we expect our tea to have the best flavor in the cup because like you we care that tea is bold and flavorful not bold and full of plastic.