• Nefara@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 days ago

      Some are but there are nylon teabags and pyramid teabags made with plastic, and apparently even paper teabags often use glues made of plastic. These days you have to specifically seek out a brand that explicitly says they have no plastic in their bags or just buy loose leaf.

      • Noodle07@lemmy.world
        10·
        8 days ago

        Using loose leaves is so easy and tea shops have so many great fruit combinations with their teas I don’t understand why so many people still use the bland tea bags

          • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            I have a tea strainer thing like this(this particular image is a Walmart one apparently). I also have one of the sturdy, in cup ones, which I like for tea where it doesn’t get bitter from oversteeping (such as Redbush)

          • Gsus4@mander.xyz
            1·
            8 days ago

            There are cups that come with their own ceramic sieve, but you can also use the chinese method of using a small dish to decant the tea…or use the grampa method if you can stand hot tea and can drink it before it oversteeps :D

        • Higgs boson@dubvee.orgEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          There isn’t a tea shop within >100 miles (160km) of me, so there is that. There is a café where you can buy tea at the gift shop.

          • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca
            1·
            8 days ago

            I don’t know where you are but if you have access to an “in-bulk” store (Bulk Barn here in Canada) they can have a limited selection of loose leaf tea - but at a huge discount over tea shops.

            I use it for bulk hibiscus tea (tea in the cold months - Jamaica in the hot ones).

  • Higgs boson@dubvee.orgEnglish
    18·
    8 days ago

    I get that plastics are amazing stuff and all, but maaaaybe tea bags don’t need to be plastic.