Easy Peasy Tip: Drink Loose Tea!
By Jenn (TinyChoices.com) | November 22, 2008
If you’re a tea drinker, consider switching to loose-leaf tea instead of teabags. By making this small switch you’ll save:
- Trees being chopped for the teabag paper, and the resulting paper being produced and shipped
- Cotton being grown and sprayed for the string, and that cotten being bleached, manufactured into string, and shipped around
- Trees being chopped and paper produced for the hangtag, and ink being produced/shipped to print on those tags
All you need to do is set a simple strainer in your mug, add tea leaves and hot water, and you’re good to go (seems like a bamboo strainer would be the greenest choice here). Plus, used tea leaves are gold for compost piles.
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Topics: Easy Peasy Tips, Food, Waste | 8 Comments »
Perfect! I was thinking about this lately for when I run out of teabags (which is a while yet, to be honest). My mother was shopping for a Winter Holiday of Sorts, and I mentioned, “Oh, you know what’s a good stocking stuffer? For me? A tea strainer. Nothing fancy. Just a tea strainer.” THANKS, TC!
I make a big pot of tea in my french press each morning. Some goes in a mug, the rest goes in a thermos to take to work. (I’ve been saving the used tea leaves for our ‘compost pile’, which is really just a pile of stuff behind our shed. Good enough for who it’s for.)
briliant. another reason to use loose tea!
brilliant.
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You can use the loose tea in the strainer more than once. You may have to leave the strainer in the cup for a little longer the second or third time but it tastes fine.
My boyfriend picked up some yummy loose teas at the farmer’s market recently (blueberry tea!), and I finally picked up a strainer at the grocery store the other day. I’m hoping I can cut the coffee addiction and switch to teas, as I really need to cut back on my caffeine intake.
There are also reusable canvas bags available (or you can make your own), so if you like to carry your own teabags with you, that can be done with loose tea, too.