13,000 signature petition delivered to Barry’s Tea in bid to end company's plastic use Michelle Byrne and Alex Barton of Uplift. Picture: Alanna Daly Mulligan Tue, 15 Dec, 2020 - 17:15 Greg Murphy A campaign group has delivered a petition with 13,000 signatures to Barry’s Tea HQ in Cork after the group claims the company have “not met their promises” to remove plastic from their teabags. Uplift, the campaign group, also brought along a giant mug made of cardboard, filled with plastic to highlight their cause. According to a statement issued by the group, “teabags produced by Barry’s are sealed with a petroleum-based plastic called polypropylene and don’t decompose.”