Hey Coffee Drinker, Ditch That Paper Cup

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Hey coffee drinker, ditch that paper cup

AlterNet

by Ruben Anderson

 

"We have some amazing technology developing here in Canada. Homegrown

high-tech whiz-bang -- Nobel Prize material, really. This system is

too good to be true: it can provide fuel, or be easily processed into

one of our most versatile building materials; it can sequester CO2 to

slow global warming; be harvested for food; increase ecosystem health

and biodiversity by providing habitat for animals, birds, plants and

insects; slow damaging storm-water runoff; purify water; and help

remediate contaminated soils. The feedstock is free and abundant, and

maintenance on the system is negligible. Or, we can destroy trees for

pulp to make paper coffee cups, which, after 15 minutes of use, we

throw in the garbage can. Then, we pick the cups up with pollution-

belching trucks and throw them in a dump, where they rot and create

more greenhouse gases. To say this is not an elegant solution to

beverage transportation is quite an understatement -- but what could

we replace it with?" (05/05/08)

 

http://www.alternet.org/environment/84187/

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Put beer on tap with running water, add a hose next to the cold valve. Think of the glass we'll save by not putting beer in bottles.