Originally Posted by
RoyalSwazi
I flew Thai Smile for the first time yesterday. Their drinks were served in paper cups. Never seen that before, but this might be perhaps a quick win to bring down plastic use. Never seen it on any other airline before.
On a side note: they seemed to have the same Pinnacle seats as BA, but with more legroom, free drinks and a choice of hot complimentary meals in economy on a three hour flight. They are supposedly an LCC...
Actually, paper cup is not 100% made in paper especially those can within hot water. Most of the time they have either plastic fiber or coated with similar material. Which end up even the most polluted thing since nobody willing to accept this for recycle.
For single used item, many airlines practice this due to the reason of hygiene, contamination will create serious problem, especially nowadays people just simply allergy and easily poisoned by anything