Biodegradable tea bags

TEA BAGS

Here’s a fact! Around nine billion PG tips tea bags are enjoyed by cuppa lovers every year in the UK. That’s a lot of tea and tea bags. And we take that super seriously.

Make no mistake, we're committed to you, the community you live in and good old planet Earth.

Teabags matter. So we went on a journey to make all of ours biodegradable.

Over the last few years, we’ve been stacking up the shelves with plant-based tea bags and our entire range of boxes now contain our new biodegradable tea bags. Tea-riffic news!

Our switch to biodegradable tea bags saves a massive 330 tonnes of traditional plastic per year – that’s the equivalent weight of 66million plastic bags every year!

And whilst doing this, we’ve also never compromised on the great-tasting brew you’ve come to expect from us.

We’re really proud to be the first major black tea brand to make these changes.

Most tea bag manufacturers should have up to date information on their website and we recommend you check there for their latest status.

If they don’t have the information we recommend you get in touch with their customer carelines.

How did we do it? Time for some science.

GEEK SQUAD

PG tips’ Pyramid tea bags are mostly made of paper. In the past, we did use a small amount of polypropylene (the most common type of plastic) as the seal to keep our signature pyramid teabags’ structure intact.

Our tea boffins have been busy finding a replacement for polypropylene. And good news, they found it! It’s a plant-based material derived from corn.

This means that everything inside our boxes of tea are now plant-based. We’ll raise a cuppa to that!