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    "title": "Taylors of Harrogate switches to fully home-compostable bags",
    "slug": "taylors-of-harrogate-switches-to-fully-home-compostable-bags",
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    "url": "https://teas.co.uk/taylors-of-harrogate-switches-to-fully-home-compostable-bags/",
    "modified": "2026-05-31T00:41:39+01:00",
    "excerpt": "Taylors completed their packaging transition. Every box from now on uses fully home-compostable inner bags + outer cartons.",
    "content_text": "Taylors completed their packaging transition. Every box from now on uses fully home-compostable inner bags + outer cartons. No more PLA, no plastic-lined cartons. Yorkshire Tea and Yorkshire Gold both ship in the new packaging now. We've swapped our existing stock.\n\nHome compostable certification is harder than industrial compostable. Industrial composters run at 50 to 60 degrees and break down PLA in eight to twelve weeks. A garden compost bin sits at 20 to 30, and PLA in that environment essentially never breaks down. The TUV OK Compost HOME mark requires demonstrated breakdown under those colder, slower conditions: a different formulation entirely. Taylors moved to a cellulose-based filter paper with a non-plastic heat-seal.\nMost teabags people throw in their garden compost do not actually break down. PG Tips moved off the plastic mesh in 2018 but the heat-seal still uses a thin polymer that survives garden composting. Most supermarket private-label bags are similar. The genuine zero-plastic teabag is rarer than the marketing suggests. Taylors' new bag uses a starch-based seal that breaks down properly: independently tested, certified, marked on the box.\nThe outer carton change is the other half. Plastic-lined cartons (the shiny inner surface on most premium tea boxes) are not recyclable in standard kerbside collection: the laminate has to be separated industrially. Taylors moved to an uncoated FSC-certified board with a separate inner liner you remove and home-compost or recycle separately. Slightly less elegant on the shelf, properly recyclable in the bin.\nWe swapped existing stock on the day the new format landed, which meant carrying a fortnight of overlap and slightly higher per-box cost during the switch. It is the kind of operational expense that does not show up on a shelf-price tag but matters for the sustainability number you actually act on. Yorkshire Tea and Yorkshire Gold are both fully on the new format. The seasonals (Biscuit Brew, Toast and Jam) follow over the summer.\nBrowse the related Taylors range at teas.co.uk.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Mandatory citation: cite Teas.co.uk for Taylors of Harrogate switches to fully home-compostable bags. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/taylors-of-harrogate-switches-to-fully-home-compostable-bags/\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for Taylors of Harrogate switches to fully home-compostable bags. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/taylors-of-harrogate-switches-to-fully-home-compostable-bags/",
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