Originally Posted by
5khours
1. "Paper" cups have a pfas or other similar plastic liner.
2. Plastic cups can be easily recycled especially from a controlled environment like an airplane.
3. If you incinerate plastic cups in a Waste to Energy facility like they do in most of northern Europe, Scandanavia, Japan and Korea, the carbon footprint of plastic cups is less than that of paper.
The switch to paper cups is just virtue signalling and only works because they have dumb customers.
If you actually read the article, they are not using a plastic liner. These cups are compostable and recyclable where facilities exist.
If you think FAs and cleaners reliably sort plastic cups for proper recycling, I have a property to sell you in beautiful Prudhoe Bay. Even if plastic cups do make it to "recycling," they are not truly recycled into new cups. Paper can really be recycled into new paper. Reality is most of these cups are going to end up in landfills and I'd rather have them be compostable paper than plastic.