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TIL There’s Filipino abacá in tea bags and Japanese yen notes

TIL There’s Filipino abacá in tea bags and Japanese yen notes

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The Philippines supplies roughly 85% of the worlds largest abacá. It’s processed into specialty paper: tea bags, coffee bags, cigarette paper and currency paper.

Philippine peso notes are roughly 20% abacá.
Japanese yen notes use abacá fiber blended with mitsumata bark.

u/NomadicSerene — 14 days ago