It’s Only One Cup - Said A Billion People
Get yourself a reusable Coffee Cup for goodness sake
I’m going to make this short and sweet and easy: there’s a reusable tumbler/thermos/coffee cup for every life style. The pandemic is no excuse. Ask the barista to pour the coffee/milk mix directly into your personal cup. Voilà. You’ve just saved a lot of trash.
The above pic: all the cups I used in one month: 34 cups that can’t be recycled anywhere (the cups are lined with a form of plastic called polyethylene hence they can’t be recycled as plastic or paper) and 34 plastic covers that I do put in the plastic waste container in the hopes it doesn’t end up in a turtle’s tummy.
I did the experiment of saving the cups I bought/drank, to see how much waste comes together in a single household. Multiply by — I dunno — how many coffee/tee drinkers get their coffee to go around the world? A billion? That’s a conservative estimate.
And here’s the proof, sourced from the reuseaboo website: In the UK, they go through 7 million disposable coffee cups a day. That adds up to 2.5 billion cups a year. Cups could stretch around the world almost five and a half…
