We're replacing the oil-based plastic in our tea bags with a plant-based plastic called PLA, and about 1/5 of our UK Yorkshire Tea bags have now switched. They’ve been in the shops since February so you may already have bought some!
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.
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.