Earth TeaDay 2009 Recycle this tea item?

[Chip]

Greetings Earthlings! Welcome to Earth/TeaDay. I hope everyone has some "out of this world" tea today. I think I will, first Shincha arrived yesterday. I can hardly wait for morning.

Yesterday responders voted Japanese greens as their difficulTea, their most challenging tea to brew. It garnered twice as many votes as any other tea!

Today's Earth Day TeaPoll was suggested by Adagio's Xine. I believe they are running an Earth Day promo, check it out.

So, Xine asks, "how do you recycle your old tins/sample
tins from Adagio or any other tea company?" Please share some details. You can also share any other Earth Day thoughts you may have as well.

As an Earth Day bonus, any ideas what day it is besides Earth Day?

I am looking forward to sharing Earth/TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up!

[chamekke]

I buy small amounts when I'm first trying a new tea out, so I reuse the smaller Adagio tins all the time ... just slap a new label on them, and voila! Ditto with tea samples provided by kind friends. They all end up "rehoused" in those wonderful small Adagio tins.

The larger Adagio tins do get refilled with Adagio teas, however...

Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724. Now there's a philosopher's name that always puts a Monty Python earworm straight into my brain.

Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author, died on 22 April 1985. He founded the Parti Rhinocéros / Rhinoceros Party of Canada, for which I once voted because their policies were so much more interesting than anyone else's. (I still rather like the idea of renaming my country "Nantucket.")

[olivierco]

I have a few sample tins I use when traveling. Sometimes I use them when giving samples to friends. I throw the rest of them. They will be recycled.

Keemun this morning.

[Salsero]

I have I have them but don't use them for anything.

Getting toward the end of last year's Yutaka Midori.

[chamekke]

As an Earth Day bonus, any ideas what day it is besides Earth Day?

I've been trying to think of something tea-related, and about the only thing that comes to mind is the death of the great tea master Sen no Rikyū, who effectively founded the Japanese tea ceremony as we now think of it. Wikipedia says he died on the 28th day of the 2nd month (of the traditional Japanese lunar calendar; or April 21 when calculated according to the modern Gregorian calendar), 1591, at the age of seventy.

Anyway, in the tea world it's mostly observed on the 28th day of the 2nd or 3rd solar month.

[omegapd]

The sample tins from Adagio turn into razor blade banks for me. I cut a hole in the top and throw my used razor blades from shaving in them. I also re-gift them with samples to other people...

[TheJerseyDevil]

I give them to some of the art school students here. They always find some random use for them.

Aristocrat Earl Grey in my cup now

[dooble]

Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724. Now there's a philosopher's name that always puts a Monty Python earworm straight into my brain.

Really? Kant was the one that made me fall in love with philosophy, after reading Prolegomena two times to understand a word of it . Nowadays it's more of a zen-like existentialism though.

Drank some horrible Tieguanyin, hope to wash it out with 'Special Grade Temple of Heaven Gunpowder' later . What a name.

[Drax]

Um, Chamekke -- I think Chip was referring to it being Administrative Professional's Day (at least in the US), formerly known as Secretary's Day.

But that stuff was interesting, too!

I do a couple things with the tins -- alternate storage for teas, give teas away, or store other stuff (pennies!), but mostly so far I think it's been to give other teas away. Very handy!

Ii'm picking up with a 2005 Xiaguan that I started yesterday afternoon... "bold."

[Herb_Master]

Display, and accumulating unused. One day I will throw some away.


The thought of Chip throwing away exquisite Chinese tins (because they were empty!) amuses me

[Victoria]

I use them for gifting of other teas, etc.

I mostly use them for sending other samples out.
I would never throw them away.

Administrative Professionals Day? Cool. I hope I get
a huge tea gift basket.

[olivierco]

Tsuru Jiru Shi gyokuro this afternoon.
It is a new Uji gyokuro sold by o-cha, from the same source than the Kame Jiru Shi gyokuro which has been my favorite gyokuro.
The leaves are quite identical for both gyokuro (handpicked of course)
As the Tsuru Jiru Shi is a better grade, I expected a somewhat stronger taste than the Kame Jiru Shi but it came out with a sweeter, clearer and less complex taste. A very long pleasant aftertaste for this excellent gyokuro.
I guess I have now two favorite gyokuros.

The only downside of this gyokuro is its high price: 40$ for 50gr shipping costs included, 30% more than the Kame Jiru Shi. At about 6$ per session, it isn't for sure any daily gyokuro, but if you really like gyokuro, you should try it by saving some of your shincha money.

I brewed it 7g 2.5oz 55°C (130°F) 90s (5s 10s 20s for the subsequent steeps)

[bsteele]

I melt them in my tire fires

[chad]

I don't have many and use the empties for whatever. My wife just saw a nice tea case in a catalog - so maybe I'll finally have a place to store the tins, hopefully with tea in them!

Enjoying a nice Pai Mu Tan this morning.

[Jack_teachat]

I've never had any sample tins, although I do now have an empty matcha tin from Ippodo, might use it to keep paper clips and rubber bands in if I can't find another use for it!

2 bowls of O-Cha's match Kiri-No-Mori so far today... contemplating ordering some more shincha, tempted by O-Cha's new Sae Midori, hmmmmmmm???

Jack