"echinosum" wrote in message
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'Adam Funk[_3_ Wrote:
;895615']According to the latest issue of _Which?_, some of the main
brands of
tea use polypropylene in the bags. The article says to "look out for
stitched bags with a tag (remove any staples before chucking them on
your compost heap)".
I think the best solution would be to buy something compostable. If
enough people did this, they would stop.

It always surprises me in this famously tea-drinking country how
incredibly few people seem to care very much about what they are
drinking as tea. You come many people who know intricate details about
wine or coffee, but very rarely tea. And yet tea is so cheap, when
reckoned per cup, that spending quite a bit more on good tea still works
out cheaper than ordinary coffee. Unfortunately an awful lot of what is
sold as quality tea, eg famous brands, is some not-very-good stuff with
fancy packaging. And yet teas, like wine, vary hugely from one
provenance to another, and according to when in the year they were
picked. And there are good years and bad years, just like wine (2009 was
a disaster in India, for example, so there is very little good tea to be
had just now. Hopefully in a few months things will pick up.) If just a
few people took this interest, and tea had quality labelling systems
like other things from cheese to pork pies, it could be so much better.




I like my tea strong and what bugs me is that a lot of people think strong
tea is what you get if you only put a tiny amount of milk in.

mark