To make this happen we’ve been working with the world’s top tissue suppliers to find an alternative tissue that will work in our special high-speed, high-volume machines.
We make 280 million tea bags a week in our factory in Stockton-on-Tees, for the UK and abroad, that’s 8.8 billion a year, so we have to make sure we get it right. We want to make sure that any tea bag made from a new tissue are of the standard and quality that you (and we) expect.
Our recent trials have been encouraging and we have already produced 3 million tea bags with a new biodegradable tissue into the market with positive results. The good news is we’ve had no reports of bags splitting, which we know has been a problem with moving to this type of tissue. So, we are hopeful that we can now work to scale up our tests, so you should start to see more biodegradable bags on the shelves before the end of the year.
We’ll keep you posted.
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