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Tea bags -- depending upon your locality -- are also a large source of micro plastic consumption. I've switched to loose leaf but it's ridiculously expensive and very worse.
I'd expect (and from experience is the case) loose leaf to be cheaper, since it requires less packaging.
Loose is usually higher in quality (depending on brand). The tea bags are usually just dust and basically production trash.
Good quality tea can also be brewed multiple times. And there you can make the price good again.
Say 12g cost 20€. Brewing 4g one time equals 5€ per cup.
If you brew the same 4g 5 times it reduces to 1€ per cup.
Some teas can be brewed up to 6 or 7 times but I had only luck with <5 times.
I am not saying tea bags are shit but they arent good either. A local testing company in Germany also tested a high amount of heavy metals in tea like lead.
Loose tea isnt immune to that but may be less suscepticle to it due to less machine handling.
Microplastic? I thought teabags were quite organic. Do you have a source on being microplastic?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940 https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/health/microplastics-tea-bags-study-scn-scli-intl/index.html
It's a subject I follow more closely than most I bother with.
Oh, those "premium" ones. Yeah, those are clearly plastic. Premium cancer dispensers. ~~But the~~ ... oh, yeah, even the "normal ones" are paper fiber "sealed with plastic". Sometimes biodegradable, sometimes not, and sometimes not plastic.
Amazing. Learned something new again and how I'm being poisoned by my lovely tea containers. Ain't the world grand?
Sounds like the same study in both articles? And the BBC says it was specifically to 'premium' plastic tea bags?
The fabric ones should be fine then?
Edit: sealed with PLA which is industrially compostable, but not home compostable : https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/our-packaging No mention of how bad it is to consume.
"Tea" inside tea bags is just dust from the tea factory floors. Micro plastics are the least of your concern.