Removing the Plastic Wrap
We’ve started removing the plastic overwrap on some of our Yorkshire Tea boxes – and those new packs will be landing on shelves in April 2024.
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Brew News
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.
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Plastic in tea bags - progress report Aug 2020
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!
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Plastic in tea bags - the switch begins!
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.
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A plastic update
We're changing from sealing our bags with oil-based plastic to a compostable plant-based material called PLA.
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Saving energy in tea factories
We've been working with others to make big changes in Kenya
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