Honest Tea is the Best Policy

By Megan McLaughlin

Okay, so reinventing yourself isn’t easy and neither is reinventing your diet - it can be time consuming and expensive - but taking small steps can be simple, cost saving and rewarding. If you love the environment, love trying to eat and drink healthily and are mildly to moderately obsessed with tea beverages, Honest Tea is something you might like to try (if you haven’t already, of course).

For those who have never heard of Honest Tea, let alone, tried it, you are in for a real treat. Their mission statement – “Honest Tea creates and promotes delicious, truly healthy, organic beverages. We strive to grow with the same honesty we use to craft our products, with sustainability and great taste for all.” To put it simply, Honest Tea offers delicious, good-for-you beverages that won’t burn a whole in your pocket or the ozone layer.

In order to offer you the best products, while maintaining a green outlook, Honest Beverages calculated their carbon footprint. They accounted for carbon emissions from electricity used in drying tea leaves, diesel ship emissions from transporting leaves all around the world to the United States and that’s just the beginning. You can read all about the process, other things they account for and the results on the Green Energy section of the Honest Beverages website.

The kids pouches are also a great idea, because Honest Tea is working to make them recyclable. They have teamed up with TerraCycle to turn the used pouches into unique bags! Organic, environmentally aware and certainly delicious, Honest Tea is definitely worth trying. My personal favorite is the Honey Green Tea – “just a tad sweet.”