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...Or you may prefer coffee but I want to concentrate more on tea.

I once read about a lovely Gran who dried out all her teabags and gave them to her grandson. It seemed to be a rather unusual thing to collect for her grandson until I read a bit more. He loved to play with his toy soldiers and his caring Gran kept all her dried teabags so that he would have sandbags to shore up any walls that were about to fall down or use them when flooding was a possibility. A child’s imagination can travel many roads even with dried out teabags.

Quite often I see published hints for gardens and gardening on-line. A popular one is a hint to put your used teabags round your plants in your garden or in plant pots but this is a plea to ask you not to do that and to discourage anyone else from doing that. Many of the tea bags we buy and use actually contain PLASTIC. Strange but true. Plastic in the garden can cause harm and problems for your dogs and cats. Problems are also caused for any wildlife and birds who visit your garden. The plastic can be eaten by all these creatures that then become ill and may not survive. Through the food chain we too could be eating plastic.

Keeping teabags out of the garden maybe a small point but an important one.  And on the matter of tea bags. Many of the tea bags we buy contain plastic but the manufacturers don’t always declare it. Some time ago a television programme drew attention to the fact that some tea bags contain plastic. I don’t have a lot of information but I do know of 2 producers of tea bags whose products do not contain any plastic. These are Twinings and PG Tips.

There has been so much for us all to contend with this year and sometimes it takes a lot of effort to get anything done. But this information has encouraged me to make one resolution for the year 2021. I am only going to buy PG Tips teabags from now on and not Tetley for example. It shouldn’t take too much effort to manage this and I will feel I am able to do something about the war on plastic.

Maybe this is one thing we could all consider for this new year of 2021.