Storm in a tea cup
Here’s a picture of me enjoying my first cup of tea since the beginning of the experiment. You can compost tea bags and recycle the milk bottles, so tea shouldn’t be a problem. However, our teabags have a little staple holding together the piece of string with their branded piece of paper.
I can’t buy different tea bags as then I’ll have a polythene wrapper to get rid of. So I went without for three days. That was until it was suggested that I can re-use someone else’s teabag. They were going to have a cuppa anyway…Or is that cheating as well?
posted by not a load of rubbish @ 5:56 pm
8 Comments:
so what has gone into your bin at work and at home so far or do you put your waste in other people's bins?
I think this is so cool; i just feel like guilty all the time, but don't do anything about it. i hope you get through the whole time. i'm going to try as well
The nicest tea is made with real leaves ( the china cup is optional)...which are then used to compost/mulch plants.
Optimadeo,
I take my waste home with me - none goes into my work bin. If you want proof, see my latest posting.
Jono and Oli are saving the world by encouraging people to consider the enviromental impact of their lives.
I bet they would have some tips on reducing land fill for you.
I don't think the occasional staple is going to hurt your compost heap - after all, metals are present in the soil anyway and plants need some of them to survive. As long as you don't try and compost girders, you should be fine! :o)
Muppet,
I can iether do all or nothing. Thinking about things rationally will probable lead to me being able to argue a case for throwing away everthing. So I have to be an extremist for this experiement.
Saying that, I am still using other people's tea bags...
Re-use sounds like fair game, but if it still ends up in the dirt at the end, then is it really reduction - possibly. :-) Interesting blog you have. Good luck with the experiment.
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