Residents across Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin consume an astonishing 900,000 cups of tea every day! Our thirst for a cuppa comes with a price though - this leads to an astonishing eight tonnes of used tea bags every single day most of the teabags still end up unnecessarily in landfill. That works out at an astonishing amount, almost 3,000 tonnes of waste tea bags across the county each year!
But it doesnt have to result in full bins and filling up landfill sites - tea bags can simply be composted at home, or in some parts of Shropshire they are collected by your local council for composting.
According to waste experts WRAP, tea bags are by far the largest element of unavoidable food waste produced in the UK, above items such as bones, cores, fruit peel and onion skins, they account for around 400,000 tonnes of household waste every year. WRAP advises people to compost tea bags even when they contain small amounts of nylon – the heat-resistant fibre that is not fully bio-degradable.
According to the UK Tea Council 66% of the British population drink tea every day and 98% of us now use tea bags. Despite an increase in coffee consumption, our thirst for tea isnt going to go away, but the problem is that most teabags are still disposed of in landfill bin and this simply cannot go on. So the message is simple, dont bin it, get your self a home compost bin and recycle your tea-bags instead to help create compost and you will make a huge difference in the amount of rubbish which we all end up paying for through our rates. 
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