A verdict is in: ceramic not only tastes better, it’s more eco-friendly
Posted by TheShot on 11 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
Back in March I posted an article espousing the taste and espresso-drinking experience virtues of the ceramic cup: Green or not: lose the paper cup. I also poked a little fun at the inevitable “carbon footprint” debate that would follow — i.e., are disposable paper cups more environmentally friendly than a manufactured, regularly washed coffee mug?
Now I appreciate the spirit behind these debates to make ours a better and more sustainable world. But the woeful, agonizing analysis paralysis people can sometimes put themselves through for something as simple as what to floss with borders on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. And sometimes thwarting the whole effort, we can find that some of our assumptions were wrong after the first concensus offers us conventional wisdom — as in the case of paper vs. plastic grocery bags.
But if you’ve been up sleepless nights worrying about how many kilos of CO2 your choice of polyethylene dental floss adds to the atmophere over nylon floss, here’s a post that should set your mind at ease for doing the right thing by the environment as well as your taste buds: Triple Pundit: Ask Pablo: The Coffee Mug Debacle.
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on 17 May 2007 at 3:53 pm -05:00T 1.Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Taiwan to ban paper cups in offices, schools said …
[...] Now we’ve written before about the importance of a good cup when drinking espresso. And we’ve written that there are times where what’s right for flavor and what’s right for the environment go hand-in-hand. The paper cup issue is the perfect example, and some governments are contributing to the cause: Taiwan to ban paper cups in offices, schools. [...]