Key Points Tea bags are ideal for composting, but spent tea leaves can also be added directly to your garden soil in small amounts. As they decompose, tea leaves release important plant nutrients and ...

Many tea bags are fully biodegradable, so when transplanting your sprouts to a pot or even directly into the garden, there's no need to disturb your seedlings in their immediate environment.

You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests.

Not all tea bags shed them. We asked experts if it’s risky to use the ones that do.

Researchers at McGill University found that a single tea bag can release around 11.6 billion microplastic particles, and 3.1 billion even smaller nanoplastic particles, into the cup.

One of the UK’s biggest tea brands is launching a plastic-free tea bag, instead switching to a new material made from bananas. As the UK becomes increasingly aware of the damage that plastic is ...

A way to get a self-contained, no-muss jolt of caffeine may seem like a quintessentially 21st-century need—but the original single-serving, low-cleanup caffeine delivery method actually hit the ...

PG Tips has splashed out £50million on a teabag that is gone in 60 seconds. The brewing giant spent two years cultivating its new innovation — which it says guarantees a quality cuppa even with ...