To ask if this is normal re teabags??

[LazyJayne]

When I make a cup of tea, I put the used teabag straight in the compost bin. All other members of the household leave them in the spoon rest (like the attached) until there's a tower of teabags.

I would prefer them to go straight in the bin as I find this unsightly, but apparently this is highly unreasonable request and would add unnecessary steps to the (apparently highly complex and exhausting) process of making a cup of tea.

AIBU?

Why fret about something that doesn't matter? Just tip in in the compost bin when you go past it and worry about something important instead.

We leave them to drain and dry in a small sieve on top of a container.

Then every so often (once two or three have amassed), I tear them open, empty the dryish leaves into the food caddy, and put the bag into the general waste bin.

(Because someone told me the gum isn't bio-degradable)

DH would allow at least 6 or maybe even 8 to pile up on the sieve.

These processes are Very Important.

Oh dear I have accidentally cross-posted with you and now it looks like I was disagreeing with your comment.

I let them pile up and dry out before I put in my food bin. Sometimes its 1, sometimes a tower!

@SilentBob me too!! I'm gonna smacked to learn the little teapot plate is a spoon rest! I assumed it's purpose was literally to put old tea bags on! Mines always got a few on and when I remember they go in the bin. Oooo I bet people have been secretly judging my dirty tea bag routine!

Bloody autocorrect! Gob smacked that was supposed to say!

DH leaves them in the sink. I wonder sometimes if it's classed as unreasonable behaviour and therefore grounds for divorce.

No, but leaving the gritty brown mess from the bottom of the coffee pot is.

I purchased a small, pretty ceramic bucket 10cm high, with a metal hoop handle, and with handpainted beach huts and the legend "tea bags" on it.

Takes about 20 teabags, when full, into the compost.

I voted YABU. Because loose tea is much nicer (imho).

oooh there are other designs!

@DramaAlpaca absolutely grounds for divorce

I use a Stoneware jar that had potted Stilton in it. DS hates it and declared he wouldn’t have one when he had his own kitchen and they would be straight in the In. DH likes the jar.

I have an old pot style ice cream container by the kettle. I line it with a bag and they go in there. Once it's full, they go in the bin, pot gets washed and we start again. They can't go in the bin hot or it goes mouldy. My mum does similar and I always swore when I finally bought my flat I wouldn't do such a manky seeming thing. It was fine as I drink very little tea. Then DP the tea guzzler moved in and I too found myself making a tea bag bin.

We're on a family holiday atm and whoever makes a round, the tea bags do go on a plate to cool & dry a little. But the rule is that they get binned when you wash up and pleasantly it is being abided by!

When I redesigned my kitchen I put a hot drinks station down one end of it (not as wanky as it sounds) because the room is very long and the sink and main fridge are at one end, and the eating area is off the other end. I have a peninsula separating the kitchen and eating areas and this has the kettle on it, shelves for mugs and tea/coffee over it, and a small under counter fridge (for the milk and other drinks) and a cupboard under it. I put a small swing out bin in the cupboard so tea bags go in there immediately after they have come out of the mugs. They don't go in the compost because they contain plastic.
However.... I do have to have a little dish for the used teaspoons as the sink is a long way away! (The room is 7m long) so it's not perfect.....
Before the kitchen was redone we had a little pot for tea bags but it rarely had more than 2 in it.

They don't contain plastic anymore. They did but haven't for a couple of years. Perhaps if you drink very cheap tea but judging by your description of your kitchen, I'd be surprised

Please compost and don't add to landfill

Tea bags still contain plastic.

It may often now be PLA plant-based plastic rather than oil-based, but it's still plastic and it still won't breakdown in a domestic compost bin. They require industrial composting to breakdown, i.e. the council compost bin. PLA is not accepted as either biodegradable or compostable by WRAP.

If you still want to compost you can let lem dry and cut them open and tip the contents into the compost bin.

I meant put them in the food recycling bin @DogInATent.

They shouldn't go into landfill. Most councils in the U.K. provide food recycling collection