Pack sizes available
Tea bags: 40, 80, 160, 240, 400, 600, 1040
Loose tea: 250g
Yorkshire Tea Original
Storage
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
The box
Yorkshire Tea boxes are made from cartonboard, which is made from trees – a renewable resource that can easily be replenished.
This goes in your paper and cardboard recycling.
The tea bags
The bags in all our original UK Yorkshire Tea boxes are plant based. Most of the bag is made from natural fibres like wood pulp and the seal is made with PLA - an industrially compostable, plant-based plastic which is made from cornstarch.
Please pop these in your kerbside garden or food waste bin. These don’t go in your home compost heap as they need quite a bit of heat and space to break down.
The outer wrap
This is made from oil-based plastic (polypropylene) - and we’re phasing it out across our range.
This isn't currently recyclable, so if the box you buy has an outer wrap, you can take it to some supermarket collection points or it should go in your normal bin.
The pack
Our loose tea packs are made from a triple-layered mix of oil-based plastics, metallised polyester, polypropylene and polyethylene. We'd like to change this packaging once we've completed our tea bag material switch and removed the outer wrap on our tea boxes (both of which involve a higher overall volume of plastic).
This isn't recyclable, so it should go in your refuse bin.
The pack
Our biggest packs are made from polyester and polyethylene. We'd like to change this packaging once we've completed our tea bag material switch and changed the outer wrap on our tea boxes (both of which involve a higher overall volume of plastic).
This isn't currently recyclable, so it should go in your refuse bin.
The tea bags
The tea bags in our bulk bags aren’t plant-based yet. They’re made from natural-based fibres like wood pulp and also an oil-based plastic sealing material called polypropylene. In the future, we plan to swap the polypropylene for plant-based plastic made from cornstarch.
At the moment, these should go in your refuse bin.
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE
All Yorkshire Tea products are Rainforest Alliance Certified™, grown and harvested on farms and forests that follow their sustainable practices. This certification encompasses all three pillars of sustainability — social, economic, and environmental.
ETHICAL TEA PARTNERSHIP
We’re also members of the Ethical Tea Partnership – with them we are able to partner with our suppliers and other tea companies to develop and support initiatives at community level as well as responding to major social and environmental challenges that the tea industry still faces.
About us
What is Yorkshire tea?
It’s a unique blend of 10-20 different black teas, all layered together to create a brew that tastes consistently balanced and satisfying. We add teas from Africa for liveliness and depth, and teas from India for strength and body. Originally created for Yorkshire water, it’s now enjoyed around the world.
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