Packaging for instant coffee made out of seaweed
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That's funny - I think plastic teabags are the premium option. Cheaper (and the majority of) tea bags are paper. They are sealed with a plastic glue - but they're trying to move away from that. A fully plastic tea bag is definitely an unusual product and almost certainly some kind of premium design.
For example https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/brew-news/our-use-of-plastic
You’re correct though, you can consider the 25% plastic in the bag as a “glue” but plastic is plastic and polypropylene takes hundreds of years to break down.
That's so gross. I like buying a lot of tea from Asia and small companies. I'm not that big of a fan of loose leaf just because it's less convenient to brew.
Tea bags have nothing to do with tea. It's that simple.
Having said that, the plastic tea bags usually have better "tea" in them.
Seems like a stretch to make this argument...
As long as your climate is correct and you have a temperate garden, is not a difficult plant to grow or harvest.
Disclaimer: I am utterly useless with plants and green fingers and all that.
I have in my garden Morocan Mint (Mentha spicata) and Lemongrass(Cymbopogon citratus). They are meant for much warmer climates but provided you have a wind barrier and above freezing temperatures these plants grow like weeds.
You can also grow them indoors. They are generally forgiving and make for great decaffeinated fresh tea.
You could enjoy also the infusion made from skins of wild rose hips. Really easy to found in the Northern hemisphere. Discard the seeds or cook the fruit entire and filter the liquid apart. Will obtain a sweet and clear infusion rich in vitamin C in a nice red tone. Good for the cold days of winter.
And there is also the Australian bush tea made from Leptospermum leaves that a lot of people culture yet in their gardens for the long lasting flowering season. I remember it dark and bitter.
None of that is a good reason not to grow a few plants and try it, if you live somewhere warm enough.
I've bought like 5, and converted a couple dozen people from other nasty plastic or perforated-metal filters. Super highly recommended.
It might be an effect of the basic premise of teabags.
Customers caring enough about waste, eco behaviors etc. already have a decent alternative: loose leafs. Compared to other infusion beverages, the jump from teabags to loose leafs isn’t that big, which makes it harder to mark a clear big eco conscious claim on teabags.
Arguably there has been more traction on biodegradable nespresso pods for instance.
That’s just as bad: “ Microplastics: Premium teabags leak billions of particles - study” - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940
We have glass jars with coffee in. Using a spoon was apparently too difficult for some people, so we created plastic mesh bags to put the coffee in.
For whatever reason, some of these people decided that putting plastic in the bin was some sort of insurmountable task and so threw it out of the window.
So we now need to remake these (utterly pointless) plastic bags into something else, so that they can be thrown out of the window or whatever.
It's all just utterly bizarre.
Some chirugs will do a test run on a printed hearth before they do it on a patient (they actually scan how the hearth looks like in the patient and model after it), protheses are being printed to custom fit per patient,...
Yes, home printers are still very into novelties and arts. But for custom parts 3D printing is very common.
As soon as mass production starts then yes, other techniques are much faster.
Right now plastic seems cheap but without factoring the externalities future generations will pay the true cost of cleaning up the damage it makes.
Not really comparable, as that requires an entire dedicated kitchen appliance to use.
I've g the Barista Pro currently.
I get a perfectly serviceable cup of coffee using a pour-over. I have a travel press, and a full sized press if I feel like such coffee. I can replace all of it - including the coffee grinder and kettle - for less than your machine. Plus, they fit over an over-the-sink shelf without weighing it down.
Grind the beans or use already ground, boil water, mix water and coffee, 5 min brew, done.
I use 30g coffee beans to 450g water, 5 minute brew.
And the hardware breaks too
Shouldn't it go into compost rather than into the water supply?
a bucket in a freezer works great if you have zero room. a small pot indoors with a lid works if there's municipal compost.
This isn't a Keurig product, or a competitor to Keurig as far as I know? It's instant coffee. Keurig is ground coffee.
Being forced to jump through a regimented set of due diligence checks, or to surrender my privacy via warrantless KYC disclosure requirements, just to invest, does far more harm than good on the balance.
No one:
Crypto zealot: we’ll I’d invest but the global banking system, blah blah blah
I am frustrated that companies like this hadn't since long ago been better funded, when there are a huge number of people who would would invest in them if the process involved less friction. It affects me and every one else.
You don't see the distinction?