In our house, we love coffee. Drinking coffee is not the greenest thing to do. Imagine there are some people around the world that are cutting the Amazon trees and rain forests down to plant coffee for us. Then they are taking care of and harvesting them. Then we have the big corporations with all their paperwork and team of professionals roasting and preparing and transporting them here for us to drink out latte in the morning.
But what can i say. We just really love coffee. For our home, we buy Shade grown Organic bulk coffee to have a much better tasting drink with lower impact on our environment. See my post regarding that here.But when we are going out for coffee, we usually bring our own cups. Our reusable cups have been our friends for a long time and we are used to them.
When we forget our cups, we try to just seat down and have our coffee there in the Cafe. Most of them have porcelain cups that you can request. In Starbucks, they call it "For here cups" They are beautiful and the coffee or tea or any other beverages tastes great in them. One we are done, we just bring them back to the counter and thank them. very easy.
It is very frustrating to see people order a drink and get a to go plastic cup and then seat there and drink it. At the end, that one drink produces a none recycled waste. With the volume of beverages these coffee shops are serving and selling, the amount of waste is a stunningly high numbers of none recycled cups, lids, straws,...
So Please, when you go for that nice drink with a friend and you want to seat down to drink it, either bring your own coffee cup, or just ask for their for here cups. You coffee will taste better and you will drink it with a cleaner conscious.
What type of cup have you used to have your drink in it lately?
Paris
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