I drink a lot of tea, especially at work (until I retired!). I collected used tea bags at work in a gallon jug, brought them home and forked them into the compost pile every couple of months. I rarely saw ANY residue from the previous additions. A lot of what I drink is tagless, and those brands definitely do NOT use plastic mesh. But even the brands that have strings and labels disappeared completely. Well, I suppose I could have filtered the finished compost looking for the tiny staples that attach the string to the bag and the label but I've never thought that was worth the effort.
If I found plasticized tea bags in my compost, I expect I would have thrown them away in the future, the amount of tea leaves involved are not worth the effort (to me!) to dismantle the tea bag for my compost. Also, I might just change brands :-)
I drink a lot of tea, especially at work (until I retired!). I collected used tea bags at work in a gallon jug, brought them home and forked them into the compost pile every couple of months. I rarely saw ANY residue from the previous additions. A lot of what I drink is tagless, and those brands definitely do NOT use plastic mesh. But even the brands that have strings and labels disappeared completely. Well, I suppose I could have filtered the finished compost looking for the tiny staples that attach the string to the bag and the label but I've never thought that was worth the effort.
If I found plasticized tea bags in my compost, I expect I would have thrown them away in the future, the amount of tea leaves involved are not worth the effort (to me!) to dismantle the tea bag for my compost. Also, I might just change brands :-)