Engineering360: "Tea Maker Attracting Criticism for Faulty Biodegradable Tea Bags"

If this isn't a tempest in a teapot, I don't know what is.

Or making a mountain out of a molehill. . . . or . . .

This is what happens when you make a crusade out of eliminating single-use plastics from the waste stream and you attempt to eliminate an infinitesimally small amount of plastic that won't make a gnat's derrière of difference to real problem and turn public opinion against the whole effort because you irritated your customers with a poorly executed/tested approach.

The image below exemplifies where the ocean plastics waste really originate from.

if you pour your tea like this clever lady, you will have no need for teabags

I use a stainless tea ball with raw tea no bag. Also the kids playing outside in the river, being adventurous and learning life skills, build a raft, poking a dead rat with a stick . Unlike the introverts here in America staring a their phones 24/7 unable to look another human in the face and complete a sentence and living in their parents basement till they in their mid thirties.