Yellow Fang
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Anyone come across it? This is biodegradable dispoaible cutlery and crockery. I bought a beaker of coffee from a newly opened coffee shop in Bristol. Apart from coffee, they sold reusable beakers made of bamboo. Their disposable beakers were made of vegware rather than plastic. I asked her whether they were more expensive than plastic, and she said yes, twice as much, about £1, or maybe 80p. I was a bit surprised about that as the coffee only cost £2. Shame it wasn't that nice. The next day I went to Plymouth, and the cafe attached to the station also sold bamboo beakers. I think they also served drinks in vegware.
Thing is, I think I prefer my coffee in a porcelain cup. They're reusable, although they're not biodegradable. I don't suppose bits of broken crockery end up in the stomachs of turtles. Their embedded energy might be quite high. They have to be fired and glazed at high temperatures. Maybe we should go back to drinking out of sheep's horns. But then sheep are ruminants, which mean they emit a lot of methane, and overgrazing by them leads to deforestation and soil erosion. Maybe we should go back to drinking from wooden bowls.
Thing is, I think I prefer my coffee in a porcelain cup. They're reusable, although they're not biodegradable. I don't suppose bits of broken crockery end up in the stomachs of turtles. Their embedded energy might be quite high. They have to be fired and glazed at high temperatures. Maybe we should go back to drinking out of sheep's horns. But then sheep are ruminants, which mean they emit a lot of methane, and overgrazing by them leads to deforestation and soil erosion. Maybe we should go back to drinking from wooden bowls.