Socially Responsible Tea Packaging.

Please visit my friend Rachel's blog for the her whole account of the "sachet" type tea bag trend hitting the stores.
The new wave it seems is a triangular bag for the tea or herbs to brewed giving them more room to fill and expand...GREAT!
However, this new material for the sachets is a type of plastic. Plastic netting or mesh bags are making a hit in the world of teas.
It is a real shame because as I have stated here many times I only use loose tea for full flavor, there are times that bags are handy. At those times, I always try to keep unbleached natural cotton or muslin bags for that purpose.

Remember if you buy these type of bags that they aren't good for the planet. They cannot go into your compost, they cannot be recycled. It is easier to just dump a muslin bags' cooled content into a compost pile OR a bag of potting soil and toss the empty bag into the wash that it is to pollute Mother Earth with more petroleum based products (plastic).
Try to be a social and ecological shopper when you are out purchasing your tea or anything for yourself.
Look for Free Trade Products and a items that have a high percentage of recycled products for containers or paper products, etc.

We need to pass on our planet to the next generation, please do not let it be an earth we are ashamed of.