Composting tea bags

To keep the water well like another sheet mulch. It is useful to cover exposed floor areas, avoiding the soil to dry. However, just like other mulch sheets, the tea sheet mulch may contain too much moisture, and is not suitable for application around plants in wet areas that need drier conditions and a well-drained soil. If your garden has wet or poorly drained conditions, first consider the composting of the leaves.

Composting tea bags: many tea bags are not biodegradable

Some tea bags are not biodegradable. Nylon tea bags are common, and they are not biodegradable. Even biodegradable tea bags tend to break much more slowly than leaves inside them. This is especially true in high quality "sachets", made of silk or other cloth, but it is also true in paper tea bags. Some paper tea bags are sealed with non-biodegradable sealants, so unless a tea bag is certified as completely biodegradable, it is not necessarily sure of putting it in compost.

A useful trick to deal with tea bags is to let tea bags dry overnight; The bags can be opened quickly and easily open; Its contents SE.

Parate more easily from the walls of the tea bag when dry.

Composting packaging materials:

In general, it is not safe to assume that the packaging is biodegradable or compostable (or that is not) depending on how it looks. Some companies, such as TEAS ARBOR, use fully compostable containers. Some materials that seem to be made of paper and cardboard may contain plastics, coatings or other chemical additives that are not biodegradable and will not be broken if they are added to the compost. On the other hand, other materials, such as peanut packaging made of corn starch, and certain plastics, may resemble other non-biodegradable materials, but can be completely biodegradable. Always check with the company that provides packing before deciding whether compost material or tirry it. Most companies with compostable containers will announce it.

Be careful with packaging labeled as biodegradable. The packaging that is biodegradable is not necessarily compostable in a traditional sense: it can be broken down more slowly than the rest of the items in your compost. This is particularly true in the biod.