Our tea and coffee is made by our sister company, Taylors of Harrogate, although we have been one business since the 1960s and still share a headquarters in Harrogate. We have been working hard to replace the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA, and now every box of regular Bettys Tea Room Blend contains plant-based tea bags.
This means you can put the used plant-based tea bags in kerbside food waste and garden waste bins to go off to the local council for composting. Taylors are now working hard to extend PLA to the rest of the Bettys tea bag range, though we do not yet have a firm date for when that will happen.
Taylors have lots more things they want to do: such as eliminating plastic wrap from boxes and making loose leaf packaging recyclable. We want all our packaging to be 'circular' – which means made from renewable, plant-based or recycled materials, and also reusable, recyclable or compostable after use.
More information can be found on the Taylors Sustainability Hub.