There’s so much plastic lining that paper otherwise everything would get too soggy anyway. Yay for glass and metal. Reusable beats disposable, no matter what it’s made of
Some poorly made reusable shopping bags rip or otherwise break before they get used enough times to break even with the single use disposable plastic shopping bags they are supposed to replace. Especially the cheap ones bring given out as freebies.
You’re discounting transportation and manufacturing (energy) costs.
Reusable only works if it’s manufactured fairly locally and actually gets recycled, which a lot of stuff doesn’t, even if it’s made from glass or metal.
We need to move away from packaging altogether.
Bring-your-own-container is the only way.
I’ll take a PLA cup over a paper cup lined with PFAS, BPA, etc.
There should really be a law that people should be able to bring their own reusable drink cup for any drink.
Still waiting on straws made of dry pasta. Biodegradable, strong, edible if you really want
bucatini is a pasta coffee swizzler basically if you want to try that. makes damn good pasta too
I mean waxed paper cups aren’t super, they are likely better than plastic, but the wax is likely a fossils fuel byproduct
Yup, just looked it up from your comment because it made me realize that I had no idea what wax was actually made of.
Paraffin wax is a colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale, consisting of hydrocarbon molecules
It is also a mixed material which makes it difficult to recycle
Ppl have been mentioning the plastic in the paper cups but I haven’t seen anyone mention that large cups used to all be Styrofoam. Some places all the cups were Styrofoam. And that was god awful for the environment. They were amazing though. Getting a giant sweet tea in a cup that never sweated was phenomenal. Shame they suck so bad.
Paper cups used to be lined in wax. Plastic is technically unnecessary.
I remember biting the rim of a Styrofoam cup and leaving imprints of my teeth
Sidenote: all 4 include plastic.
The real trick all along was always reducing your consumption of disposable products.
The real trick all along was always reducing your consumption.
Ftfy
The real trick all along was always reducing you
Less people = less consumption.
I’ve never seen the one on the right. I’m guessing this is an American thing?
Paper cups still have a plastic lining, and it’s related to PFAS chemicals iirc
Just implement a carbon tax already FFS.
Fuck people for trying anything, I guess.
But what if I enjoy feeling morally superior to people who are trying their best?
You hit them with a signature look of superiority as you sip from your metal straw.
Corporations are bad and therefore I cannot make any changes myself!
I’ve had paper straws served in plastic packaging!
I’ve never seen the thing on right in my life. In the EU both cup and straw are paper
Glad to see somebody else notice this. I find getting a large plastic cup with these “disintegrate halfway though” paper straws bloody ridiculous.
I never had an issue with the paper cups. He’ll, I’d be more than happy if more places offered discounts to fill your own and I could just keep a clean tumbler in my bag/car.
