Plastic in tea bags - progress report
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.
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.
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.
We're changing from sealing our bags with oil-based plastic to a compostable plant-based material called PLA.
We've been working with others to make big changes in Kenya
We’ve got some big bits of news to share about plastic. The plastic we’ve been using to seal our tea bags is going to be replaced with a renewable plant-based material. We’re starting to switch over now, and the aim is that all our UK tea bags will have switched by the end of 2019.