Go Green––The Tea-Carrier Trend

Shan Chien

     With the rising of eco-friendly awareness, environmental protection becomes a lifestyle. Recently, people have started to use reusable products such as stainless-steel straws and cloth tea carriers.

    In 2018, Taiwan has legislated against shops providing free plastic bags, which also leads to the tea carrier boom, which causes a variety of tea carriers to pop up in shops or night markets. The materials used to make the tea carriers can be leather, wool or cloth, like those we usually see on the street. Furthermore, some people use coffee cup sleeves and shoelaces to make a DIY tea carrier. Also, the patterns are various, such as dogs, flowers… etc. You can choose or make one you like.
  
    Tea carrier is a good-looking, practical, and eco-friendly product. It puts the spirit of environmental protection into practice in our daily life. By using it, we can reduce the environmental pollution by plastic products. Moreover, it is portable and a delight to look at. However, there are still people who prefer to pay a little money for plastic bags instead of using tea carriers.

    European Union proposes a bill of banning the use of non-reusable plastic products. Thus, we know that the reduction of using plastic products is important for not only the Taiwanese people but everyone in this world. We all have to do something to save our world even when it takes only a small gesture of replacing plastic bags with tea carriers.