Ceramic

Erik and I officially purchased our "I'm not a paper cup." cup. We have made an agreement to donate our plastic reusables. We are keeping a few plastic reusables to take with us to fast food restaurants to demand that we be given our soda in reusable cups versus disposable. There will be 2 plastic reusables in each car for cold drinks/fast food jaunts. If we leave the house without our ceramic cups we WILL NOT purchase coffee in a to go cup. (We both have resuable mugs for coffee at work)

The Facts

* When you purchase one cup of coffee (or tea) in a disposable container every day, you create about 23 lb of waste each year. -Ideal Bite

* About eighteen percent of garbage we produce is composed of disposable containers, of which hot beverage cups represent a large portion.

* Styrofoam cups are the worst culprits, as it never degrades. Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups every ear. Even 500 years from now, the foam coffee cup you used this morning will be sitting in a landfill somewhere. -The Recycler's Handbook

* Starbucks just started rolling out new cups that contain 10% recycled paper. (Whoopee).

Whether made of recycled paper or not, disposable hot beverage cups more often than not end up in landfills.

Using a Ceramic cup one time saves the amount of oil it takes to produce 39 paper cups and 1006 foam cups. Thats just oil for production and shipping! Think how many trees you are saving and the impact on landfills you are reducing.

JUST THINK ABOUT IT