Ancestors

Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 00:15

Who was I talking to about tea on here the other day?

I just encountered a plastic teabag in the wild! It’s a very posh herbal tea from a sampler set we received as a gift some time ago, that had been lurking in the back of the tea cupboard...

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Written by Ela - TechnicalOtter on 2024-11-29 at 01:05

@tkinias oh goodness THOSE. THOSE!

I mistake them for home compostable ones occasionally and I find them in the bottom of the compost bin a few months later.

They’re evil.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 01:28

@technicalotter

yeah, it’s the kind of gratuitously anti-ecological thing that really gets my goat

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Written by Ela - TechnicalOtter on 2024-11-29 at 12:33

@tkinias What I love about it is they're often from brands that are proclaming ecology and "eco-ness".

If it's got plastic, it probably isn't ecological. Don't get me wrong, there are uses for plastics where other materials don't surfice, but in this case, we have PAPER!

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 14:47

@technicalotter

right, that’s what’s so egregious about it—it’s not like we’re scrambling to find a replacement for plastic bin liners (which is a nontrivial challenge!) but gratuitously substituting plastic for where something renewable and trivially biodegradable is traditional and works just fine

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Toot

Written by Ela - TechnicalOtter on 2024-11-29 at 17:28

@tkinias Exactly! It is very much in that same vein of The Crying Indian advert and the introduction of the plastic soda bottle. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM)

It's also becoming harder and harder to find home compostable teabags it's making me debate getting loose leaf.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 18:53

@technicalotter

huh, that’s interesting! here in the States, those plastic ones are still an oddity

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Written by Ela - TechnicalOtter on 2024-11-29 at 21:10

@tkinias it’s more common with the “fancy” brands.

Twinings still do a paper thing but it can only go in the municipal compost bin rather than the garden one unless I want to rip open burning hot teabags for the leaves inside.

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