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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  There’s so much plastic lining that paper otherwise everything would get too soggy anyway. Yay for glass and metal. Reusable beats disposable, no matter what it’s made of

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• IckabodKobain@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The cup wasn’t just made of paper. It was paper with a Wax Coating.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It hasn’t been wax in decades, its polyurethane.

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• OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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  • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    This image looks like right wing corpo propaganda to me. It not only does it divert the attention away from the handful of megacorporations emitting 80% of all green house gases, it is attacking a moderate leftist – who admittedly causes a relatively large amount of greenhouse gases.

    But Taylor Swift is not making most of those flights on a personal basis. It’s to provide a service to fans. So in that sense we can regard the emissions as those of Taylor Swift the company. And in that sense they are much lower than many other companies who we often give a free pass.

    So, yes hold the big emitters responsible, but let’s start with the 57 on the list and work our way down to Taylor Swift.

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  • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Jeff Bezzos:

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I thought that was a lobster disintergrating at first

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• Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  They literally have reusable cups for a deposit

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The real trick all along was always reducing your consumption of disposable products.

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  • Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The real trick all along was always reducing your consumption.

    Ftfy

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The real trick all along was always reducing you

      Less people = less consumption.

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I mean you still gotta eat

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• garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’ve never seen the thing on right in my life. In the EU both cup and straw are paper

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• turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Still waiting on straws made of dry pasta. Biodegradable, strong, edible if you really want

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Could we do Twizzlers instead?

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  • irq0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    pasta.life

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t those significantly alter the taste of whatever they’re sitting in?

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I mean waxed paper cups aren’t super, they are likely better than plastic, but the wax is likely a fossils fuel byproduct

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  • candyman337@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Not if they use beeswax

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It is also a mixed material which makes it difficult to recycle

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I believe they increasingly use PLA which is a bioplastic. But yeah it used to be, and in many cases likely still is, polyethylene which is an oil product.

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    • Axiochus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      PLA is not compostable or anything of the sort. So honestly it’s more of a “this plastic could be recycled, given that it’s sorted out from the other plastic, and given financial viability”.

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yup, just looked it up from your comment because it made me realize that I had no idea what wax was actually made of.

    Paraffin wax is a colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale, consisting of hydrocarbon molecules

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• brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’ve never seen the one on the right. I’m guessing this is an American thing?

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  • frog@feddit.uk ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yes, corporations guilt tripped Americans to use shittier products while they spill their garbage in the water.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They went to styrofoam for a while, but that’s hated now, so they’ve gone to the clear plastic. I hate it, it sweats in the cup holder, a lot. And the ice melts, and the drink warms up much faster.

    They have biodegradable styro, but people don’t understand the difference, so they get just as worked up over the good styrofoam as the bad. So they just pivot to the worst possible option, plastic.

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• PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Are they not cornstarch PLA? That’s biodegradable, indeed hot-compostable, and not a plastic

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• Zomg@piefed.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Wax imbedded paper cups aren’t that great either

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