Pukka?

Pukka tea bags? Two of the boxes below contain an extra 20%
more tea bags in exactly the same sized box, that's 4 more

24         :         20         :         24

But as you can see there is room for more more more.

Dr.Stuart's Extraordinarily Good Tease

Yesterday I purchased 2 packets of Dr.Stuart's Extraordinarily Good Tea,

mainly because they were on offer for £1 for a packet of 15 herbal tea bags (26g)

I opened the box and flipped the bags so they were laying flat rather than
standing upright, revealing that approximately
33% of the box is empty space.

Text on the box states 'Dr.Stuart's has 15% less packaging than before'

Why would a company boast about using less packaging when they could

have made the reduction 3 times greater?

Celestial Seasonings -supporting ethical trading practices?

Bengal Spice tea bags, 10 bags, 23g

The packet is less than a third full.  How ethical is that?

Clipper tea - Green vs Sleep Easy

The packets are the same size, yet one contains 25 bags, the other only 20.  That is 25% less.

Is this really Green tea? Can they Sleep Easy?  Not in my book

Yogi Tea

Is the packet half full or half empty?  Check this out, 2 new packets of Yogi Tea, but the contents of both actually fit in one box.  No trickery involved.  But doesn't the printing inside the box look lovely, it makes me think the tea tastes better and justifies the ridiculously high price for 15 tea bags.

Good Earth ?

First impressions - great tea, clever perforations on box allows you to

stand it up on smallest end, the foil wrapped bags fall out when needed.

Only when I opened up a new pack did I realise just how much space was unused inside.

Then I realised the cheeky blighters only put 18 bags in a packet, not 20 like most companies.

Repackaging them 'head to toe' gives even more room.

Lets get scientific:

The box is approximately 130mm long, yet barely 90mm is needed

As you can see, the box can accommodate 50% more tea bags,

27 in a box rather than 18.  Someone is puling a fast one here.

Good Earth, there's room to do gooder

I'm going to grow my own mint and make my own, much nicer.

Pukka ?

I like herbal tea, I don't like having a cupboard full of half empty boxes, its pointless. In a world which is slowly becoming packaging conscious, why not fill the boxes up with more teabags and charge slightly more for them. I'd be happy with that, and there would be less lorries on the road and more room in my cupboard for other things.

Here is a photo of 20 Pukka teabag in the box and there is room for a pear to fit in. In the big scheme of things, that isn't very pukka is it?  I have decided I am going to start buying loose tea from the health food shop.