Saving trees with reusable coffee cups
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Say no to paper cups
The news isn’t all bad, Starbucks recently introduced a disposable cup containing 10% post consumer recycled content, the coffee giant also pioneered the corrugated paper sleeve to serve as an insulating layer instead of the 2nd cup.
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Whether yours is a take out skinny on the way to the office or an instant thrown down from the machine at work, chances are you’re joining the 85% of Australian adults who drink at least one cup of coffee a day.
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| 23-11-2007 | I was Googling for degradable paper cups for selling soup at a stall for Friends of Samaritans in our small town of Llantwit Major in Wales. You've made me think we should forget soup, and sell pakoras instead!
I also take my own cup when I'm out, in case I want to buy coffee or tea, but we...more | the green frog |
| 22-10-2007 | Little Green Men, our modern day bushmen, are they New Ageists or are they simply just into the prevention of Old Age? Vegetarian sheep lovers, they are the New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans with spastic bladders. Nowadays around here, you simply can't swing a dead cat without hitting a tree-hu...more | Kleine grüne Riese |
| 22-9-2007 | Why do we need diposable cups anyway- Just throw them on the floor, Thats what cleaners are for, they would not have a job if it were not for us. | KB |
| 07-6-2007 | rather than perpetuating the use of nasty plastic stuff, perpetuate the recycling - and its cheap and useful too!!
http://www.edenstore.co.uk/stationery-search.asp?types=yes&type=stationery+>+recycled
pencils made from one whole recycled plastic vending cup each, only 40p - what a grea...more | Devongirl |
| 02-6-2007 | And if you saw how much the average delivery of produce costs, you'd realise just how much you're being ripped off, too.. | yoyo |
| 01-6-2007 | Subway's Subs are subhuman. I refuse to submit myself to one ever again. | Subordinate |
| 30-5-2007 | I think something does really need to be done about recycling at coffee shops, fast food resteraunts, everywhere.
When I worked at subway it was the same. Everyone wanted the cardboard cups because they're so much more 'Friends' and cool. Then the sandwiches themselves, wrapped first ...more | yoyo |
| 30-5-2007 | No actually that's a fair point. It's one of the reasons I never go to a MacDonald's or similar kind of establishment. I just can't stand to see all the paper and plastic that gets used and then thrown away. Okay, stuff sometimes gets recycled down the line, but a lot of things don...more | Matty |
| 30-5-2007 | "I just feel like such a pompous, self righteous impostor that it’s not worth it".
Uh huh. We feel the same. About you, that is. | Ex-Coffee shop employee |
| 30-5-2007 | In this disposable society it is the people which/who are now the disposable items. Soon they will become recyclable - as per Soylent Green.
What would you select as your final theme? | The Green Giant |
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