Links to interesting stuff….
Plastic Free Tea Bags Yup. The actual bag that you thought was paper, does in fact contain plastic. Read more HERE.There are plastic free teabags. You can find then here
Loose Tea
cheaper and easier is loose tea.
How to make plastic-free tea - it’s all in the tea balls
Coffee
Beans - grind your own Buy In store and online plastic free coffee HERE!
Coffee single-cup brewing system - compostable pods
Buy
Supermarkets
U.K. wide
PG Tips are selling tea in a cardboard box. In supermarkets! Way to go PG.
This photo is thanks to the lovely Plastic Is Rubbish FB group who came up with these reccomendations. They are a great source of personal experience and up to date information.
PG Tips is “Unilever is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Its products include food, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Wikipedia”
Ground Coffee In Compostable Packaging
And as for coffee drinkers, there’s this. “Not sure if this has been shared already but just to flag up Percol ground coffee in home compostable plastic free packaging - I bought it in Waitrose but should be in other supermarkets too”
From their website
“You’ll start to notice the Plastic-Free logo on our new home compostable Ground, Beans and Coffee Bag packaging from November 2018. Like many, we want to do more to reduce the amount of packaging (particularly plastic) we’re using, and as a UK retail brand which sells more than 4 million products a year, we have an important role to play in reducing the impact we are making on our planet”
Read more here
Whittards
Whittards are. U.K. wide chain that will sell you tea loose.this from twitter
“Hi there, yes if you visit our store with your own container, we can fill it with either tea or coffee.”
They have over 50 shops. You can find one one here.
NB you will have to take your own plastic free or , better still, reusable packaging. See below for links.
“The company was founded in 1886 by Walter Whittard. It expanded in the 1980s and 1990s, and was bought by the Icelandic Baugur Group in 2005 for around £21 million.”
Loose Food A to Z
Find out if a shop near you sells bulk food loose. This is stuff that that normally comes plastic packaged ie rice, pasta and salt. And yes these shops do exist in the U.K. There’s just not many of them.
Heres alist of towns with shops selling loose food.
You might need to take your own bags.
Tea & Coffee Merchants
We are putting together a list of loose tea merchants. You will need to take your own bags
Leeds The Teapot has coffee beans and leaf tea from all round the world. Really lovely stall in the food hall. Also makes coffee to drink. See what else the market has to offer, here.
Nottingham Coffe roasters. Will also post out plastic free and you can order on line
Aberystwyth great tea and coffee shop
Huddersfield
Coffee Evolution fantastic
Lancaster
Lancaster tea merchants http://www.thecoffeehopper.com/
Leaminster Nitty Gritty Wholefoods do loose spices and tea.
TodmordenLoose tea can also be found on Todmorden Market.
Online
Nottingham Coffe roasters. Will also post out plastic free and you can order on line
This is an interesting option that allows you to buy basic foods on line plastic free.
You can even use your own produce bags. Read more
HERE
N.B.
lines changes, products get removed. For more information why not ask the Plastic Is Rubbish FB group for updates. They are a great source of tidbits, personal experience and the latest news. Why not join them and share the plastic free love x
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Nice.
Rosevear Tea, 100 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh has a wide range of loose teas and gives a 50p discount for refills, using either your own tin or one of their pouches.
Many thanks - other people will benefit from your sharing as will the environment. And it sends a message to retailers. Together we are stronger
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Whittards in Norwich sell loose tea including loose decaffeinated tea. If you buy a metal tea caddy from them (£5) they will fill it for you (obviously you pay for the tea) and each time you have it refilled they take 50p off the price. 10 visits and you have paid for the tea caddy. The staff are also really nice and were very interested to hear about my attempts to live plastic-free.
Thanks for the info.
WholeFoods on Kensington High Street (London) do loose leaf tea (as well as a range of other teas) and allow you to fill a paper bag with as much, or as little, as you would like.
@ClaireH280 @Ecothrifty @meg_e_r @makeandmendyear @treadmyownpath @Westywrites know where 2 buy loose tea? pls + 2 - http://t.co/T0wLUdrqQp
Yay thanks Lynne! Another supplier.
http://www.thecoffeehopper.com/ I promised I would tell you the name of the Lancaster tea merchants where I got loose tea last summer. Also loose coffee. The shop has been there years - I used it back in the early 70s. Lyn Bull x