Composting, Urine, Coffee Chaff, plastic bag
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Rant: Plastic Tea Bags
Comments (20)I've just emailed my complaint to Unilever: ___________ I have a complaint to make about your Lipton pyramid tea bags. The words ÂSustainable development are displayed prominently on your main webpage. There are many good things listed on that section of your website, but there is one thing which lets you down: plastic tea bags. I bought your peppermint tea bags yesterday, and expected to be able to put the used tea bags onto my compost heap as usual: but I saw with real horror that your bags, the string and the label on each bag are all made of plastic. When most tea bags are made of paper, and can easily be made of paper, this is inexcusable. You will know all of the arguments regarding sustainability and harm to sea creatures which surround plastic: plastic takes up to 1000 years to degrade (paper takes 2 to 5 months to biodegrade), so once that plastic has degraded, its microscopic plastic particles are still in the environment; plastic bags are being ingested by sea creatures such as turtles who die as a consequence; oestrogenic compounds are leached from PET water bottles, especially when they are warmed up  I dread to think what happens when boiling water is poured onto a plastic PET tea bag. I see, from a quick web search, that I am not alone in my shock at finding out that you use plastic tea bags. One blog poster even posted your reply to her query: ÂThe translucent Pyramid tea bag is made of PET, the same food grade material clear water and juice bottles are made of. As with any plastic, it would not be considered biodegradable. PET is completely safe and is 100% recyclable within the plastics waste stream. Hope this information is helpful. Kind regards, Your friends at Lipton The fact that you say it is 100% recyclable within the plastics waste stream is not the reassuring fact that you seem to think it is. ItÂs PR wool-pulling. Another example of your amazing PR machine would be your use of the term Âgossamer when referring to plastic tea bags. Another example: the box displays the Ârecycle now icon, and yet doesnÂt list the plastic anywhere. So consumers donÂt know that they are buying plastic until they open the box. I wonÂt be buying your products again. I will be warning my friends about your tea bags. I will post this on the web so others are also aware and donÂt make the same mistake I did. Please, please, stop making your tea bags out of plastic....See MoreIdeas for fine sawdust and organic coffee chaff?
Comments (3)I'll mention the pellets, thanks. BTW, DH shredded a bunch of leaves with the lawnmower (too bad we don't have a bag). Since they are so fine now, would you mix more like 50/50 with the coffee chaff? I also have old mulch hay, so there is *some* bulky stuff going down as a "winter mulch" or "lasagne" on the beds. Just not sure how much brown to put on when the browns are fine like these shredded leaves (and I didn't go pick up more sawdust) and not in their natural bulky state. Burlap covering will count as a brown too....See MoreLeaving shredded leaves in plastic bags??
Comments (12)I often store bags of leaves over the winter. I stock up in the fall at a nearby subdivision. I use the leaves to balance all the old produce I compost throughout the year. I get them from other people's yards, so some are shredded, some aren't, some have grass mixed in, but mostly they do not. The bags don't seem to shred in the sun unless I keep them for more than a year. Two falls ago I went a little berserk and stockpiled 3 truckloads of bags of other people's leaves, so last year I didn't scrounge any up. But the bags from two years ago sometimes came apart. Not much trouble with bag smells in the bags, as generally some weeds or something poked a hole in the bags. Marcia...See MoreEver used a Compost Bag?
Comments (8)If you don't have much shade, then try to place it on the east side of a fence or wall. That way it will only get sun the first half of the day. It wont hurt to toss in the peat moss to help you get started. If you scout around your neighborhood (or ones nearby if you don't wont your neighbors to think you've gone kooky) the day before yard waste pickup, you should have no problem finding bags of ready made compostibles. Spring is great because you can get bags loaded with a good mix of lawn clippings and leaves. Find a riding stable nearby and you'll be able to fill all the garbage cans you can stand with horse manure and shavings at no cost, except for gas and maybe a little back pain later. Another way to get ground browns is to contact local tree services and they'll be more than happy let you take stuff off their hands. If you want a truck load, they will probably even dump one in your driveway for you. Spread it as mulch or put in the cans to compost. Hope this helps......See Morekimmq
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