Mighty Good Package

I am a die hard tea drinker. I drink all types and flavors. I have specific teas to drink in the morning, afternoon and evening, depending on caffeine levels. I am picky about my tea, to say the least. I prefer loose leaf because the quality and price is usually better. There are some bagged teas I'll drink, though, like my new Traditional Medicinals green tea that the Green Easter Bunny left in my basket. I'll even use less-potent, cheaper tea bags for iced tea and they get the job done. However, there are certain types of bagged tea that I have always been against for environmental reasons.



Teas that come in "silken" pouches just don't seem reasonable to me. Yes, they look nice and feel nice and claim to be better than the average tea bag but why would you buy something that's bad for the environment when you can get biodegradable paper tea bags or loose tea?



It turns out Mighty Leaf tea bags are indeed biodegradable. According to their site they are made of corn and unbleached cotton and will completely break down within one year. Okay, I stand corrected. Mighty Leaf isn't as bad as I thought. They even took their conservation a step further by printing their boxes with soy-based ink and using biodegradable packing peanuts and recycled brown paper packing materials. Kudos to them. I would like to see them get rid of their foil packets and conventional cotton strings. Paper packets and organic cotton would be superb but I must say that I am happy to see how well Mighty Leaf is doing otherwise.



PS- Those other silky bags made by Lipton and TeaForte are NOT biodegradable.