[jon_adler]

Unfortunately, all the actual tea bags are usually plastic. The wrapping is probably a small percentage of the plastic in this product.

[mcv]

I'm pretty sure my tea bags are paper, and have always been paper. It's the more recent "pyramid" shaped tea bags that I think are made of plastic. The most recent change to my tea bags was to remove the staple so they could go in organic waste.

[AlecSchueler]

You'd be surprised how paper-like the plastic bags appear to be.

[pfdietz]

Why can't staples go in organic waste? They go into my compost pile and will rust. Iron is like 5% of average crustal rocks and is abundant in soils.

[WithinReason]

Teapigs pyramids are made of cornstarch

[gmac]

This is also an issue for microplastics ingestion. In the UK, teabags are increasingly made of PLA.

[pyrale]

I solved this one with a metal tea infuser and bulk tea in a tin box

[behringer]

Time to switch to loose leaf tea