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Regarding tea bags, sometimes I see plastic tea bags which are crazy, as they must have a weak structure/large surface and the hot water surely washes out a lot

Regarding tea bags, sometimes I see plastic tea bags which are crazy, as they must have a weak structure/large surface and the hot water surely washes out a lot of plastic. I am assuming the normal paper tea bags I get in Germany with a metal clip should be plastic free though, or am I missing something? Yes we are down to discussing tea bag brands now but as you are saying, it's an emergency :-(

someweirdperson 4y ago
Tea bags are a useless convenience. In bulk tea is not only significantly cheaper (not as bad as the tea capsule mark-up, which is in a league oo its own), but also waste is reduced to nothing (only the tea itself, which is perfectly organic). Rinsing a reusible tea holder doesn't take more time than it takes to dispose off the paper tied to the end separately.
- javajosh 4y ago
  > Tea bags are a useless convenience. Why do people wildly overstate their case, and thereby weaken it? This is obviously false: tea bags, like disposable silverware, may be harmful but they are not useless! These days if you are against something then anything bad said about it is true, anything good said about it is false or questionable. This is a (bad) lawyer's attitude, a very easy algorithm to execute, and one that is transparent and punished by any judge worth their salt.
  - majkinetor 4y ago
    Useless! Your analysis its obviosuly fake and lame.
- OJFord 4y ago
  > Tea bags are a useless convenience. Surely an oxymoron? (I don't really drink tea fwiw; if I did I probably would be the type to get into it with loose leaves sourced from somewhere I believed to be better than anything available in bags (not even because of the plastic or whatever in bags).)
DevX101 4y ago
What consumers think of as normal "paper" tea bags release 11.6 billion “microplastics” and 3.1 billion “nanoplastics” into each cup. It's not paper.
- propogandist 4y ago
  which tea bags don't do this?
  - DevX101 4y ago
    I wouldn't use tea bags at all. Use a metal loose leaf tea infuser and buy loose leaf tea. I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X50NUU4 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X50NUU4
    - Aachen 4y ago
      The "use jquery" answer for tea bags. "How do I do X with tea bags?" "Don't use tea bags, use this better thing!"
      - TeMPOraL 4y ago
        Fair point, though this particular example makes me actually want to use the metal infuser instead of tea bags.
    - type-r 4y ago
      the hilarity of suggesting use of something from Amazon when the discussion is about avoiding health hazards...
    - TeMPOraL 4y ago
      I bet $10 this is actually covered in a very thin layer of plastic because it's what seems to happen to some metal products in the food space (see e.g. "aluminum" cans).
- akiselev 4y ago

someweirdperson 4y ago

Tea bags are a useless convenience. In bulk tea is not only significantly cheaper (not as bad as the tea capsule mark-up, which is in a league oo its own), but also waste is reduced to nothing (only the tea itself, which is perfectly organic). Rinsing a reusible tea holder doesn't take more time than it takes to dispose off the paper tied to the end separately.

javajosh 4y ago
> Tea bags are a useless convenience. Why do people wildly overstate their case, and thereby weaken it? This is obviously false: tea bags, like disposable silverware, may be harmful but they are not useless! These days if you are against something then anything bad said about it is true, anything good said about it is false or questionable. This is a (bad) lawyer's attitude, a very easy algorithm to execute, and one that is transparent and punished by any judge worth their salt.
- majkinetor 4y ago
  Useless! Your analysis its obviosuly fake and lame.
OJFord 4y ago
> Tea bags are a useless convenience. Surely an oxymoron? (I don't really drink tea fwiw; if I did I probably would be the type to get into it with loose leaves sourced from somewhere I believed to be better than anything available in bags (not even because of the plastic or whatever in bags).)

DevX101 4y ago

What consumers think of as normal "paper" tea bags release 11.6 billion “microplastics” and 3.1 billion “nanoplastics” into each cup. It's not paper.

propogandist 4y ago
which tea bags don't do this?
- DevX101 4y ago
  I wouldn't use tea bags at all. Use a metal loose leaf tea infuser and buy loose leaf tea. I use this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X50NUU4 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X50NUU4
  - Aachen 4y ago
    The "use jquery" answer for tea bags. "How do I do X with tea bags?" "Don't use tea bags, use this better thing!"
    - TeMPOraL 4y ago
      Fair point, though this particular example makes me actually want to use the metal infuser instead of tea bags.
  - type-r 4y ago
    the hilarity of suggesting use of something from Amazon when the discussion is about avoiding health hazards...
  - TeMPOraL 4y ago
    I bet $10 this is actually covered in a very thin layer of plastic because it's what seems to happen to some metal products in the food space (see e.g. "aluminum" cans).
akiselev 4y ago