Tea bags that rot down in compost
 

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:02:49 +0100, (Peter
James) wrote:

I've just spread the contents of the compost bin on my vegetable garden
and find that the Typhoo tea bags that were put into the compost haven't
rotted down.
Can anyone recommend a tea bag that will rot down in the compost.
Typhoo tea bags seem to leave a fine plastic net behind them.

Peter


Have you written to Typhoo to ask them if they will change the bags?
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On 12/09/2010 11:55, mogga wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:02:49 +0100, (Peter
James) wrote:

I've just spread the contents of the compost bin on my vegetable garden
and find that the Typhoo tea bags that were put into the compost haven't
rotted down.
Can anyone recommend a tea bag that will rot down in the compost.
Typhoo tea bags seem to leave a fine plastic net behind them.

Peter


Have you written to Typhoo to ask them if they will change the bags?

I does seem odd that in these days of encouraging the use of
biodegradable materials that some manufacturers are going backwards in
this respect.

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
I think most civilised people drink loose leaf tea in Bodum glass infusers.

Oh, I loved our bodum infuser, but after 2 catastrophic middle of the night
infuser-suicides, we've given up and gone back to a pot. :-(
(they /really/ make a mess when they launch themselves from a high shelf,
especially, it seems, at 3am. I think it's to do with the location of the
moon and its effect on gravity!)

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Gordon H wrote:
I have a couple of Bodum coffee infusers, now you have me wondering
whether they could be used for tea...

The tea infuser is a different beast to the coffee infuser.

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In message , mogga
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Have you written to Typhoo to ask them if they will change the bags?

You would be better off writing to the supermarket asking why their
supplies are not going "green".

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Gordon H wrote:
I have a couple of Bodum coffee infusers, now you have me wondering
whether they could be used for tea...

The tea infuser is a different beast to the coffee infuser.

I would imagine so. The first Bodum I bought did not have the inner
perforated cup which regulates the trickle of hot water through the
coffee grains, but the one I bought recently from Sainsburys does.

It produces a stronger cup of coffee.
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Christina Websell wrote:

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Well, mine don't. I spread the contents of my compost bin on my
allotment on Thursday, and was dismayed to find that there were
thousands of Typhoo tea bags on the surface, the contents rotted down,
the outer bags present.
They had been in the compost for up to 1 year.
So the seach for a tea bag that provides a good cup of tea, and rots
down continues.

Ah, but no chicken poo in the compost?
No wonder it doesn't rot g
No teabags refuse to rot in my compost heap.
OK, then I'l try chicken poo. It sells for £3.50 a bag here in
Cornwall. It's that or change the tea bags, and I do enjoy Typhoo.

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In message , Peter
James wrote


OK, then I'l try chicken poo. It sells for £3.50 a bag here in
Cornwall.


£3.50 per bag! That's a very expensive way of producing one cup of an
alternative hot drink.

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On 12/09/2010 17:02, Alan wrote:
In message , Peter
James wrote


OK, then I'l try chicken poo. It sells for £3.50 a bag here in
Cornwall.


£3.50 per bag! That's a very expensive way of producing one cup of an
alternative hot drink.


I bet they don't sell much of that chicken cup-a-soup! ;-)

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Alan wrote:
In message , Peter
James wrote


OK, then I'l try chicken poo. It sells for £3.50 a bag here in
Cornwall.


£3.50 per bag! That's a very expensive way of producing one cup of an
alternative hot drink.

Well, it would last a long time though.

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In message , Peter
James wrote


OK, then I'l try chicken poo. It sells for £3.50 a bag here in
Cornwall.

£3.50 per bag! That's a very expensive way of producing one cup of an
alternative hot drink.

And the taste is too strong for me...
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We've got a stainless steel one, which also has the advantage of being insulated. At last we've managed to stop adding to our supply of orphan plungers!

Hi Peter,

I was in the habit on discarding tea bags into my compost bin, I also found that even after a year they had not broken down. I now dry said tea bags, rip them open and save the leaves in a container. The bags I discard to the rubbish bin, I think that they must be using some form of synthetic mesh.

What worries me is that we don't know what it is made from, what worries me more is that we are drinking tea which may not be safe for human consumption!!!


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"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , mogga
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Have you written to Typhoo to ask them if they will change the bags?

You would be better off writing to the supermarket asking why their
supplies are not going "green".

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Both these ideas are good. Typhoo should definitely be asked about why
their tea bag*bags" do not rot down in an ordinary compost heap.
They may reply wriggling about the issue.
I've recently become concerned about what I feed my cat because ingredients
in cat/dog food that were sourced in China killed many pets in the USA from
kidney failure because it was contaminated with melamine to enhance the
protein content when it was tested.

So why not ask them about their sources? I did, and received reassurance
that nothing in his food was sourced from China.
Not so for his treats that were manufactured by Bob Martin. They were
unable to identify where exactly the ingredients came from, and fiddled
around by repeated e-mails that said "we are committed to the health of.."

I take that as a no, then. They have no idea, and all the treats are in the
bin.




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Timothy Murphy wrote:
Alan wrote:

Surely you buy tea based on the quality of the tea and not the bag they
put it in?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...biodegradeable

I think most civilised people drink loose leaf tea in Bodum glass infusers.
Better for the palate and better for the garden.
Sadly it is becoming steadily more difficult to find loose leaf tea
in supermarkets.

You might have to get the stuff by mail order - I'm lucky, I can drop in
on ilkinson's (and another tea/coffee merchant in Norwich) - the only
teabags I have in the house are used ones I've scrounged from fiends and
rellies.

I dry them (to entertain the neighbours?) on my washing line, then, when
I feel like some mustard and cress, us them as mini growbags.

/Owners of bitches, note:/

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and patching the spots when the grass ha sprouted deprives the sparrows
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