a way to use up that left-over oil and fossil fuel

[circlecross]

the dh has heard a story but is too busy to post it, the nylon tea bag. Apparently it allows for larger leaves and that all-important looser leaf tea drinking.experience, which we'd all agree was lacking from our cuppa.

I mean, does it make anybody else think "what a load of sh*t" and totally despair for the state of the planet? The nylon tea bag???

[Martin]

rather the same feeling I got after a swift peruse of the "John Lewis" overpriced christmas tat booklet that fell out of last week's Grauniad - for only £49 - a 4" candle in a nondescript glass, a gingerbread house kit for £15, or a mere £399 for a coffee maker...........
-what's really frightening is that there are people out there bats enough............

[eccentric_emma]

oh no, the worst i've found is fragranced tampons.

fragranced???? i just cant get my head around it.

[ina]

oh no, the worst i've found is fragranced tampons.

fragranced???? i just cant get my head around it.

Pretty bad for your health, apparently - there's a good article in the current Ecologist...

Btw, nylon tea bag: in Germany the use of the cotton teabag is quite common. Allows you to use loose leaf tea, comes in different sizes (for different size tea pots or cups), and lasts quite a long time, if you treat it well. Has anybody seen them on sale here - preferably an organic version of it?

[9ball]

The good news is of course - give it a couple of years and we will all be able to pay a premium price for eco paper tea bags. HURRAH

[Stonehead]

What's wrong with loose tea in a teapot? Or am I just old-fashioned and out of date? On second thoughts, don't answer that...

[hamster]

I'm with you, Stonehead, loose leaf is far superior! Composts quicker as well. Though I confess I have a basket in my teapot, as I get fed up fishing tea leaves out of the spout...

[Annpan]

I have a cotton tea sock... got it in the Whittards sale a good few years back. It saves fishing about in the pot, as you say but it can be a bit of a palaver to clean. It has a metal ring around the top, so cant go in the washing machine and bits of tea get caught in the fabric. I still often use loose tea. Though I got a fancy bodum teapot for my birthday that has its own basket, haven't used it much yet.

[ina]

I have a cotton tea sock... got it in the Whittards sale a good few years back.

That answers my question from above - cheers. Although I'd still like to find an organic one.

[getting there]

Here in New Zealand they've started selling individually (plastic) wrapped prunes! Of course it's the perfect answer to the fact that we're running out of landfill space and our native birds are choking on rubbish or starving to death because their insides are blocked up with rubbish. And humans being copycats soon apricots etc will come individually wrapped.

[Chickenlady]

Yep - I have seen individually wrapped apricots 'for lunchboxes' here recently. Completely bloody stupid.

I am also a loose tea in the pot person, but have a metal infuser to stick in the cup if I am making it just for me (Whittards again).

The world has gone mad.

[Moomintroll]

Yep - I have seen individually wrapped apricots 'for lunchboxes' here recently. Completely bloody stupid.

I am also a loose tea in the pot person, but have a metal infuser to stick in the cup if I am making it just for me (Whittards again).

The world has gone mad.

I find the metal tea ball very useful. It also contains everything to get the finished leaves out to the compost bin.

[Stonehead]

Yep - I have seen individually wrapped apricots 'for lunchboxes' here recently. Completely bloody stupid.

Mind you, I can see definite potential for one thing to be individually shrink wrapped in plastic...

Politicians' heads!

[ina]

Mind you, I can see definite potential for one thing to be individually shrink wrapped in plastic...

Politicians' heads!

Vacuum packed, do you think?

[Shirley]

I've got a tealeaf thingy Ina... have a look next time you are here. It sits in a cup and then you just lift it out and empty into the compost. Bought it via Suma.