Prince Charles steers clear of using teabags because they contain plastic and jokes his gut will have to be 're-engineered' because so much is in our food - dailymail.co.uk
Via dailymail.co.uk (Article by Colin Fernandez and Phoebe Weston for the Daily Mail) He spoke at Polymateria, a company that has created biodegradable plastic Plastic is used to heat-seal teabags while Charles says is 'very worrying' But his own Duchy Organic teabags are made with plastic, Waitrose say ( dailymail.co.uk ) Photo credit: newidea.com.au/prince-harry-and-william-feud-prince-charles-camilla-parker-bowles Photo credit: Polymateria hashtag on Twitter Plastic or polypropylene is used to heat-seal teabags. For some this may come as a surprise and it was in 2017, Mike Armitage a gardener from Wrexham, discovered that the white residue left behind when used teabags were piled on a compost heap. Following his campaign, tea-makers PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea 'switched away' from using plastic. ( dailymail.co.uk ) I would have discovered the same findings if I was composting vegetables and fruits as I'd put used...