According to the endlessly diverting and absolutely essential tea counter on the UK Tea Council’s home page, Britain has consumed 79,982,215 cups so far today and it isn’t even noon yet. An estimated 98 percent were brewed from tea bags, which, with their paper wrapping, paper tabs and strings, produce tons more excess waste than would loose tea. (The strings can’t be recycled as dental floss, sadly). [Read more...]
The New Tea Ladies
No, Louise Allen didn’t say if she’d ever put lipstick on a teapig. She did, however, offer an honest reply when I asked her why she’d named her London company “teapigs” :”So people like you ask that question”.
15 September 2008 By Leave a Comment
