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I'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most rec
by mcv 1y ago
I'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most recent change to my tea bags was to remove the staple so they could go in organic waste.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoYou'd be surprised how paper-like the plastic bags appear to be.
- ahartmetz 1y agoCould try burning a tiny piece and check how it behaves and smells.
- mcv 1y agoI doubt the advice would be to throw them in the organic waste if it was plastic.
- AlecSchueler 1y agoSome plastics can go in the organic waste bins, such as the organic waste bin bags.
- ddoeth 1y agoWhile they can go in the organic waste bins, they still get sorted out at the end because they don't degrade fast enough. Study from Australia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X24005531 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X2... Article from California: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-are-actually-garbage/ https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/21/when-compostables-a... German Trash Company: https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall https://www.zakb.de/keine-fremdstoffe-im-bioabfall
- AlecSchueler 1y agoSure and it might be that the teabags are also being sorted out.
- WithinReason 1y agoTeapigs pyramids are made of cornstarch
- pfdietz 1y agoWhy can't staples go in organic waste? They go into my compost pile and will rust. Iron is like 5% of average crustal rocks and is abundant in soils.