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Aren'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 t
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Aren'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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