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Tea aficionados have long known that you get a richer brew when you allow whole, uncut tea leaves sufficient room to unfurl during the steeping process. Tea bags contain what essentially is tea "dust," or the sweepings left behind after the intact tea leaves have been picked, processed, and packaged. Couple that with the fact that most tea bags aren't stored in airtight containers, what little flavors that do remain after their contents have been crushed and trampled upon-mostly the bitter tannins-are lost through oxidation.
Loaded with their own extraneous packaging baggage, such as eco-unfriendly chlorine-bleached virgin paper, cotton string, and staples, tea bags produce a prodigious amount of waste for every smooth cuppa that you sip. The used tea leaves in your teapot or stainless-steel infuser, on the other pinkie-extending hand, only need to be tossed into the compost heap.
Choose organic and fair-trade loose-leaf tea that isn't soaked in cancer-causing pesticides and guarantees the small farmer a living wage-now that's a blend both you and the planet can drink to.
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