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Cartoon: Plastic tea bags → Loose leaf tea Surprise! Billions ofme are in your tea.

Instead of

Plastic tea bags Loose leaf tea

Why switch

Healthier

Skip the ~14.7 billion plastic particles a single silky bag can steep into one cup.

Greener

Compostable leaves instead of sealed plastic mesh.

The impact

You, per year 365 plastic bags5.37 trillion microplastic particles
All of the world 2.96 trillion plastic bags skipped / year

If everyone across the world switched, every year that’s:

  • 2.96 trillion plastic bags
  • 43,500,000,000 trillion microplastic particles

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Reduce

Buy loose leaf and use one spoon per cup — zero packaging per serving.

Reuse

Good leaves re-steep 2–3 times before they retire to the compost.

Recycle

Compost the spent leaves — instant free garden food.

Sources

  1. Hernandez et al. (2019), Environmental Science & Technology — plastic tea bags release ~11.6B microplastics + 3.1B nanoplastics per cup
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