It was damned good tea. But I groaned as I stood at Pei Wei Asian Diner’s self-serve tea station and realized what I’d bought. The Oolong tea from Evolution was bundled in a disposable tea bag, nestled in a tiny single-serving box, wrapped in cellophane and served with a disposable cup. I had assumed they’d serve me loose leaf tea in a diffuser or a tea bag pulled from a larger box of tea. I shouldn’t have assumed. I also should have brought my travel cup (my bad!).
I thought about the larger shipping footprint my little tea box must have. Twenty single-serving tea boxes require larger shipping boxes than one standard 3X6 inch box of thin tea bags, so add another extra-large layer to the packaging. The tiny box on my table was just one of tens of thousand such boxes. Ryan Wanger may use Target boxes to make his forts, but maybe I can make a dainty Barbie doll beauty salon from Evolution tea boxes, along with a fashionably daring Barbie dress from the cellophane. While the package was attractive and the tea was tasty, I won’t order it again. There are better ways to get my tea fix that don’t involve trash on my table (or in the landfill).
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