Within the morning, our ideas usually flip to tea or espresso — a comforting ritual earlier than the day’s worries set in. Whereas we innocently steep our tea luggage in scorching water, we could overlook the microplastic particles they launch.

A single tea bag can launch round 11.6 billion microplastic particles at brewing temperatures. Not solely is that this plastic dangerous to human well being, but it surely additionally pollutes the surroundings, making its method up your complete meals chain.

Two pals from Assam — Anshuman Bharali and Upamanyu Borkakoty — have the right resolution to the issue. With their Asaam-based firm The Tea Leaf Idea (TTLT), the duo has give you a one-of-its-kind dip with eco-friendly luggage which might be manufactured from leaves.

Identified as Woolah, these tea luggage include two compressed leaves and a bud (the unopened leaf on the tip of a department), weighing roughly two grams. They’re formed in a cylindrical kind and tied with a uncooked, naturally grown cotton string.

These leaves improve the style of the beverage and can be utilized to brew as much as 4 cups of tea!

Making these sustainable tea luggage has helped them generate employment for 140 ladies from their area. They not solely make use of these ladies but additionally pay for his or her kids’s training.

Woolah gives a wide range of completely different flavours like filthy inexperienced (inexperienced tea), filthy white (white tea), soiled detox (inexperienced tea with tulsi), killer immunity (black tea with tulsi) and the brutal combo (a mixture of all of the varieties).

Would you want to do that distinctive teabag that promotes sustainabl-tea? 

Edited by Pranita Bhat