I understand it as the receivers were deliberately attacking their competitors satellites (and that this would effect their performance as it was wasting bandwidth).
Countering in this case would be by making their competitors service as bad as theirs?
Sounds like the same study in both articles? And the BBC says it was specifically to ‘premium’ plastic tea bags?
The fabric ones should be fine then?
Edit: sealed with PLA which is industrially compostable, but not home compostable : https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/our-packaging No mention of how bad it is to consume.