You can't compost (most) tea bags because they have plastic in them.
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[News] Working from home and the tea bag mountain
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You can't compost (most) tea bags because they have plastic in them.
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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3 mugs of tea a day is generally my limit. One when i first get up (note: get up, not wake up), one mid/late-morning and one afternoon normally suits me fine.
I WFH mainly so the mountain/tower idea is tempting, especially when feeling less productive.
I WFH mainly so the mountain/tower idea is tempting, especially when feeling less productive.
Eight o'clock tonight. The winner to join Neasden FC (leading goal scorer, B. Pevsner; OG12) in the North Circular Relegation league, next season.
In an ideal world.
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
I'm with you there, absolutely LOVE tea, more than most things on this green Earth, but.... Recently had new windows put in and the blokes doing it drank insane amounts of tea (possibly my fault partly for being such a genial host). If I drank half that amount I'd be tachycardic by midday.
Apparently if you drink enough of it, you shit turns brown.
I compost ours and they seem to vanish without a hint of plastic being left.
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
PG Tips can be recycled, it says so on the box. It helps if you split the teabag to speed up the process.
I will edit that, just looked at the box and it does not mention composting the tea bags, it used to and you can find out online .......er somewhere. Bad day I need a cuppa.
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You think you're English, but you've got some foreign blood in there. I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
They're Englishmen.
Foreigner.
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
Clipper unbleached tea bags rot-down a treat. Recommend their Gold version, bloody lovely for a bag.
Why do tea drinkers feel the need to leave the poxy bags on the kitchen top? Why can't they go straight in the bin?
el punal
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Seven posts in, I was wondering how long it would take!
el punal
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*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
PG Tips used to use plastic to seal the teabag but now have replaced this to make the teabag fully eco friendly for the compost.
** cough ** see previous posts on this thread !
Or they leave them in the sink. I never understand it. You know full well they're not going to come back later and throw them in the bin. They'll just leave them there until a NORMAL person decides to throw them away, because they don't want a kitchen full of manky used teabags.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I'd be pissing like a horse all day. Clear piss as well.
Nobody wants that.
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(and no, that wasn't a euphemism)
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
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What the OP was getting at, I think, is about finding ways to do anything other than work when you're working from home. For instance, i'm being encouraged to work at home. No idea why. I do 4 minutes of work then find myself instinctively pottering around. I think I may have hit double figures on the tea front last Tuesday, I read every article of the Guardian site and my carpet was staggeringly well hoovered.
A labourer on a site I worked on years ago came into the mess hut for a cuppa and finding no teabags, dusted off one that had been used and discarded into the rubbish pile about 3 days earlier amidst mouldy sandwiches and sawdust. He seemed happy with his brew though.