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 can make much nicer coffee at home than most places sell here, and we prefer our beverages in comfort (definately not in starbucks!) | 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-hugger. Following introduction of a full tax on domestic PCs as well as upping the TV licence the government has promised that it will be spending the extra funds gained on asteroid collision avoidance courses. Are we all nothing but an endangered species spud bashing on an organic farm? What better way is there to enlarge our experience of mind, body and spirit than with a strong cigarette made with organic tobacco?
We may have hurt the Earth Mother badly by not eating macrobiotic foods and by digging for metals and oil.
But don't let the mind parasites take over. They may have claimed to have spent a previous life with their dog in ancient Egypt, spotted UFOs in Peru, and have had close-encounter contact with aliens in China, Russia and Egypt? But did they really manage to tap into the secrets of the collective unconscious and ghoulish grotesqueries of human evil? Parasitism is one of the three most classic types of relationship in the organic world. The other two are predation and symbiosis. Notice that all these relationships involve energetic transaction
Are we smokers the strange, numerically superior paralyzed passive victims who almost never resisted the fascist non-smoking takeover? | 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 great idea!! | 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 in the small paper wraps to hold them together (and disguise how bad they looked..) then wrapped in 2-3 huge A3 pieces of the Subway wrapping paper. Then covered with napkins, THEN put into a plastic bag!
It's frightening. Hold me? | 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't.
It's one of the reasons I prefer the old style cafes where you go in sit down then eat and drink from proper plates and cups. You're sugar comes from a sugar dispenser and is stirred with a spoon - not some piece of wood or plastic. The problem is down to lifestyle and no one has time to sit down and have a coffee anymore. There are social implications I am sure.
Good idea these ceramic mugs. Coffee shops offering a small concession for their use could benefit them as well as the environment. Repeat customers perhaps? | 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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