Tea – Composting Tea Leaves and Teabags

If you drink tea and have a garden, composting used tea leaves is an easy way to promote sustainability, even if you do not compost any other material. Tea leaves are rich in nutrients and loose tea makes an outstanding mulch which can be applied directly to the soil in your garden. The tea can be collected in a container and placed directly on your garden daily or every few days. Composting tea leaves turns a waste product into a valuable resource, which has two main benefits:

• Reducing waste
• Enriching your soil for free and without using any synthetic fertilizers

Because it comes from the same plant, green tea actually contains the same amount of caffeine as other types of tea. The caffeine content of a cup of tea varies from 30mg to 100mg depending on how long the tea is infused and whether it is brewed with loose leaves or tea bags (loose leaves have more caffeine).

Though the leaves are usually brewed and drunk, green tea extracts can be taken in capsules and are sometimes used in skincare products.

Even with fully biodegradable teabags, one must exercise caution. Many tea companies claim that their teabags are biodegradable and compostable, but say nothing about the amount of time required for decomposition. Some teabags, especially the higher-quality ones marketed as “tea sachets”, are made of silk, which is natural but decomposes slowly. Even paper takes longer to decompose than most kitchen waste. Whereas the leaves inside a teabag are suitable for direct application to a garden, depending on conditions, the bag itself may take a year or more to fully decompose–much longer than most fruit and vegetable compost.

The best place to start locating the source of your freshly ground tea is the internet. You can search for your favorite blend over the internet and be sure that it is exactly what you want If you have identified the blend then make quick searches over the internet to identify the nearest roasters and distributors and then you are in track to make visits or get in touch with the roaster and get your tea from them. Now you may think you will pay a fortune to the get the best freshly ground tea, what you do not know is that you can actually save a lot of your money by getting the best tea direct from the source.

Drink Loose Tea:

Lastly, if you are interested in sustainability, drink loose tea. Not only does it taste better and save money, but it also saves energy. The packaging process for making teabags is involved and uses energy and materials that are unnecessary. Not only will using loose tea make it much easier for you to compost your tea leaves, it will improve your tea-drinking experience and help you promote sustainability in other ways as well

Resource Author Francisco R. Higueras
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