Numi Organic Tea, Jasmine Green (18 Plastic-Free Tea Bags)
Numi Organic Tea
Jasmine Green, 18 tea bags per box, manila hemp cellulose bags
The tea bag itself is genuinely plastic free; this specific variety loses points on its wrapper, not the bag in the cup.
Tea bags made from manila hemp cellulose with cotton strings, so nothing plastic steeps in your cup. Most pyramid style tea bags are nylon or PET and shed enormous particle counts into hot water; Numi bags avoid that entirely. The weak point for this exact variety is the wrapper, see below.
How this score breaks down
Strengths
- No plastic in the tea bag, string, or tag
- Unbleached bag material, non GMO verified per brand
- B Corp and Climate Label both registry verified
- Fair Trade certified garden sourcing for this tea per brand
Trade-offs
- This exact variety is excepted from Numi's compostable wrapper claim
- Wrapper contains PLA and a metalized layer and is not recyclable
- Brand cites third party compostability certification as in progress, not complete
Scored on our consumables method (consumables-v1, 2026-07-04). How we rank →
What's inside
Tea bags of unbleached manila hemp cellulose with cotton strings and recycled paper tags with soy inks, per the brand FAQ. Wrappers are FSC paper lined with sugarcane based PLA and a metalized eucalyptus layer.
| Part | Material |
|---|---|
| Tea bag | Manila hemp cellulose, unbleached, non GMO verified per brand |
| String | Cotton |
| Tag | 100% recycled paper, soy based inks |
| Wrapper | FSC paper with plant based PLA lining and metalized eucalyptus layer |
| Outer box | Paperboard |
Free of Nylon and PET tea bag mesh; plastic in the bag, string, and tag, per brand
- Packaging
- Numi states its wrappers are commercially compostable, with the exception of some Gunpowder Green and Jasmine Green wrappers, and this card is the Jasmine Green. We therefore score the wrapper as a conventional lined wrapper, not a compostable one. The exception comes from Numi's own FAQ.
- Microplastics
- Plastic pyramid tea bags shed billions of micro and nano particles into hot water in published testing. A manila hemp cellulose bag with a cotton string avoids steeping plastic in the cup entirely.
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What this product is, at a glance.
Certifications
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About Numi Organic Tea
Numi Organic Tea is a brother-and-sister company founded in 1999 in Oakland, California, by Ahmed Rahim and Reem Hassani, who started it in a small apartment and named it after a dried lime they drank as children in Baghdad. It makes premium organic teas in bags and loose leaf across black, green, herbal, and other blends.
Numi is a public benefit corporation and a certified B Corp, confirmed in B Lab's registry, and states it is USDA Organic, Fair Trade, and Climate Neutral. Its teabags are compostable and plastic-free, while the wrappers use a plant-based lining that needs commercial composting, so the plastic-free story is partial.
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