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> why more companies are not using this in their marketing campaigns It might be an effect of the basic premise of teabags. Customers caring enough about wast
by makeitdouble 5y ago
> why more companies are not using this in their marketing campaigns
It might be an effect of the basic premise of teabags.
Customers caring enough about waste, eco behaviors etc. already have a decent alternative: loose leafs. Compared to other infusion beverages, the jump from teabags to loose leafs isn’t that big, which makes it harder to mark a clear big eco conscious claim on teabags.
Arguably there has been more traction on biodegradable nespresso pods for instance.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoAren't teabags just thin paper, cotton strng, and a printed piece of paper on the other side? ...so biodegradable in a very easy way already, even if you just throw them on the ground somewhere?
- dflock 5y agoSome teabags either are plastic (which is generally fairly obvious) or contain plastic elements for re-enforcement or sealing (which is often not obvious) - these ones mostly just look like paper.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoI remember those 'levitating tea bag' experiments (empty up a tea bag, open it up as an open ended cylinder, light the bottom part on fire, and it flies up), and I never smelled anything plasticky.... there are either really miniscule ammounts, or they just don't use plastics here.
- yunohn 5y ago> really minuscule amounts That’s just as bad: “ Microplastics: Premium teabags leak billions of particles - study” - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940
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