[WIRED] Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Quote from the author:

  “This would all be much easier if companies were required to tell us what they use in their products,” she says.”

  Amen

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• Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Once again corporations prove they will always put profits over the habitability of our planet.

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• Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah no shit. Have they not used a paper cup? Theres clearly plastic in there because paper doesn’t hold liquid.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically some paper cups are lined with wax to keep them waterproof. Not all cups are created equal.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey, what if we all just carried reusable containers? I did this all the time for coffee before the pandemic, but now they won’t let people do that anymore because germs I guess.

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