Originally Posted by
triplefives
... when flying in an aircraft produces 90kg of CO2 per hour per passenger while a single water bottle has a carbon footprint of 82g. That's about 1,100 plastic bottles per hour in which one hour is the carbon equivalent of more than an entire year's consumption of bottled water for most people (and entire flight may be the equivalent of other people's entire carbon footprint in a year).
Yes, flying has a huge carbon footprint but it doesn't mean that we can't take (however small) steps to decrease it. I also think carbon footprints can be misleading in the sense that excessive amount of plastic bottles used will always lead to plastic bottles being improperly discarded, which affects the oceans - be it in the form of micro-plastic, etc - this isn't captured in a carbon footprint.
Originally Posted by
triplefives
But back to OP's point, it is possible to actually re-wash and re-use plastic cutlery. Qantas did it. But that requires more analysis to calculate the carbon costs of operating the dishwasher, environmental impact of water, transportation, sorting, etc).
I think it'll be great if CX can do this!