[colliewobbles]

What to do with used teabags?  At the moment ours go on the compost heap but is there any other wonderful use for them?    

Donna

[tizaala]

Defra frown on composting teabags in-case they were in your kitchen (WTF ?) and got contaminated with foot & mouth via milk, Bless e'm.

[doganjo]

Sounds as bad as the COSSH instructions - if you spill H2O you have to rinse with water 

[Clarebelle]

I put mine on kitchen paper on the kitchen radiator to dry, then i rip them open and pour into my 'plant feed' tin which is a old sweetie tin with a mixture of dried tea from the bags, dried coffee grounds and crushed egg shells. When potting up my plants i mix a handful in with the soil. It's a bit time consuming but I don't have a compost bin and don't like wasting them! 

[Bionic]

I put them in the bottom of pots when I am potting up

[Daisys Mum]

Oh dear I just bin mine   but then I don't have a compost heap either just a bl**dy great muck heap.

[Mammyshaz]

We don't use many, usually just when guests have a cuppa. Then they go on the compost 

[Backinwellies]

Isn't the whole point of a compost heap to use kitchen left overs to produce some thing useful?   ...

[JMB]

http://english.eastday.com/e/top10/u1a5438369.html



Google it and see what you get!
This link talks about using them as a house hold cleaner, and for warts...!

Not to mention puffy eyes when you're crying over a lost lamb.....
J xxxx

[MAK]

We re-use PG Tips bags to make more tea becuase we can not get PG tips in France. The tasteless, colourless French tea bags probabley have no value on a compost heap  nor doe our 4 cup PG Tips .
Seriousley though - Roses grow on them - and not just the T roses.

[SallyintNorth]

I've a friend is going to make a bag out of old tea-bags - but don't ask me how!

I tried saving mine for her, but they seemed to get mould on them before they'd dried out; if I dried them quickly (over the stove, for instance), they just stuck to whatever they were sat on.  I gave up and went back to lobbing them on the fire or binning them.

When I used to have no cows and a garden I used to put them in the compost.

[Izzy]

There are 2 reasons why I don't compost t bags. First in my experience the bags don't rot that well so when using the compost you keep having to fish out wee scraps. The second is that tea is full of tannins which are I understand are designed to stop decomposing bacteria (think of tanning leather). Fortunately our council collects kitchen waste weekly so that has slightly solved the issue for me.
 
Incidentally I recently bought loose tea by mistake so have gone back to making a full teapot, tea cosy, strainer, the lot. It tastes so much better than a one cup, or even tea bags in a pot that I might not go back to tea bags.

[colliewobbles]

Incidentally I recently bought loose tea by mistake so have gone back to making a full teapot, tea cosy, strainer, the lot. It tastes so much better than a one cup, or even tea bags in a pot that I might not go back to tea bags.

Might try that - I recently went back to butter from using margarine - loads better 

[Hassle]

I used to use them to clean the bottom of my cooking pan after being used on an open fire. .....

And is that such a thing as a silly question....

[HesterF]

Treasure maps - gives the right aged look of ancient documents. Limited use though