It's incredibly easy to make - just add cold water and let it sit in the fridge for a couple hours. It also tastes so much better (in my opinion), is much cheaper, and is more environmentally friendly.
A big 2L thermos filled with mugicha and ice is a great way to stay cool in the summer.
> Most paper tea bags also have plastic fibers used in the sealant in addition to these nylon and PET plastic tea bags.
> Even paper tea bags have an unsettling substance called epichlorohydrin added to them in order to keep them from bursting.
It's like how some people think canned drinks are better than plastic bottles (even though they're lined in plastic), or that disposable coffee cups are made from paper (lined with plastic), though the tea bag misconception is more common than these
We full our own compostable (corn fiber) tea bags, I’m guessing they also have something bad in them?
Canned drinks use fewer resources than drinks in single-use bottles; and aluminum is so widely recycled, people give you money for aluminum scrap. So they are better in that sense.
Glass bottles are also a health hazard because of plastic sealant in the cap - they can be much worse than plastic bottle products, unintuitively