An update on plant-based tea bags
We’re replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA, and about half of our UK Yorkshire Tea bags have now switched.
We’re replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA, and about half of our UK Yorkshire Tea bags have now switched.
Today’s Sunday Times reports on some horrifying stories from women working on tea farms we buy from in Malawi. Human rights abuses have no place in our supply chain and we’re grateful to those who have had the courage to speak out.
We've restarted the rollout and our hope is to have switched UK boxes of Yorkshire Tea, Yorkshire Tea for Hard Water, Yorkshire Tea Decaf and Yorkshire Gold packs by June next year.
The teapot emoji is finally here! From today (6 November 2020) anyone with an iOS or Android device can start using it.
We're replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA, and about 1/5 of our UK Yorkshire Tea bags have now switched. They’ve been in the shops since February so you may already have bought some!
We're replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA - and the switch is going pretty well so far! Some of them are in the shops now - and by the end of April, we reckon we'll have made about 360 million tea bags with the new material.