Green Tea Reincarnated As Green Paper
What do you do with used tea leaves? Chairman Mao ate them, my dad likes to compost them, and Japan’s green tea giant has a new suggestion.
Andrew
ITO EN, Ltd., a major manufacturer of green tea and tea beverages, and the Pack Corp., a package manufacturer, issued a joint statement that they have developed a new type of paper bag that employs used tea leaves left over from ITO EN’s tea beverage production process. The companies decided to consider used tea leaves not as residue, but as an untapped material that absorbs and fixes carbon dioxide.
[From Japan for Sustainability - Used Tea Leaves Contribute to Combating Global Warming]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Tea News.
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