Back in 2013 I wrote about the small, invisible habits we hardly notice (see here.)
My example was simple: you walk into a coffee shop, they hand you a cup you think is paper (but is usually lined with plastic), you drink, you toss it. Job done. Except it’s not really done, is it? That cup still exists somewhere.
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The world in a take-away coffee cup
(Written in 2013 before the movement started taking shape)
Have you ever wondered what the ecological and anthropological costs are of our consumer decisions? Can a simple quick consumer decision shape our future? For example, do you know what the hidden financial and health costs are of all those take-away cups that deliver your morning caffeine fix? Put another way, did you realize that the world’s largest coffee chain served 2.3 billion cups of coffee in take-away cups last year, a number that keeps growing annually?
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