We're replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA - and the switch is going pretty well so far! Some of them are in the shops now - and by the end of April, we reckon we'll have made about 360 million tea bags with the new material.
Competition Terms & Conditions for our Marcel Brewchamp Social Media competition
We did it! Tea is finally getting the emoji it deserves – and it’s coming this year. For decades, all us tea drinkers have had to represent our chosen brew is a little picture of green tea and a little picture of coffee. And those just don’t cut the mustard when you’re trying to say: “I’m having a brew.” Where’s the drink we know and love? The proper stuff, the one that’s the colour of He-Man. You know, tea. So we put a formal application together and sent it to the people who decide on new emoji – the Unicode Consortium.
Five years ago, we set out on a mission to plant one million trees by 2020. With just over month to go, we're very chuffed to say we've more than doubled that target, planting a grand total of 2,155,067 since 2014.
We're changing from sealing our bags with oil-based plastic to a compostable plant-based material called PLA.
The sixth Yorkshire Tea National Cricket Week saw more than 1,500 schools and community groups take part in a nationwide celebration of cricket in the playground and the classroom.