Red rag, meet bull: "Britain’s tea addiction is sparking an ecological crisis" (Macleans.ca)

by Jonathon Gatehouse on Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:44am 

Britain’s tea addiction is sparking an ecological crisis. The country’s 62 million residents consume 165 million cups of the hot beverage every single day, and the soggy leftovers are piling up. Wrap, the U.K.’s national recycling and garbage reduction body, estimates that tea bags are now the single largest food waste contributor, adding 370,000 tonnes to landfills each year. So they’ve partnered on a new campaign with the nation’s largest tea maker to convince people to compost the sachets rather than toss them out with the trash…

(ht Pat Gardiner)

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