Tea bag

[2][3][4] The first tea bag packing machine was invented in 1929 by Adolf Rambold for the German company Teekanne.

The latter is bleached pulp abaca hemp, a plantation banana plant grown for its fiber, mostly in the Philippines and Colombia.

In 2017, Mike Armitage, a gardener in Wrexham, UK, found that tea bags left a plastic residue after being composted.

[14][15][16] In January 2018, Co-op Food announced that they were removing plastic from their own brand 99 tea bags in conjunction with their supplier Typhoo.

[17][18] In February 2018, PG Tips announced that their pyramid bags would now use corn starch adhesive in place of polypropylene.

[23][24] Although cellulose is considered to be biodegradable, the plastic components are not and release microplastics to the environment when composted.

Online collector clubs often include catalogs of tea bags,[25] as well as collection tracking tools.

Teabag folding began in the Netherlands and is often credited to Tiny van der Plas.

It is a form of origami in which identical squares of patterned paper (cut from the front of tea bag wrappers) are folded, and then arranged in rosettes.