{"id":627,"date":"2013-08-25T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=627"},"modified":"2013-08-25T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T22:41:10","slug":"the-daily-deluge-of-coffee-cups-into-the-landfills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"The daily deluge of coffee cups into the landfills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paper-mug.jpg\" ><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-628\" alt=\"Three items to throw away after a few minutes of use.\" src=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paper-mug-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paper-mug-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paper-mug-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paper-mug.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three items to throw away after a few minutes of use.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just got back from a trip. In the airport on the way out of town we got drinks at a Coffee People.\u00a0Then I had to throw away the cup. <em>Ow!<\/em> I could hardly do it. But they\u2019re not eligible for reincarnation, so I had to.<\/p>\n<p>The rule of thumb is that anything that can hold liquid is not recyclable &#8212; because the only way that it can hold liquid is if it has a certain amount of plastic content, and there&#8217;s not a thing they can do with this plasticky paper.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you but for me it\u2019s getting more and more painful to use disposable items. I guess an airport is the one place I should be able to feel ok\u00a0about\u00a0disposables. People are on the go &#8212; they can\u2019t slow down or they\u2019ll miss their plane. But as for the rest of life, do we really need to be sucking on a drink every minute of the day?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think we did before Starbucks came along with this idea? When we wanted a cup of coffee, we sat down and had it in a civilized manner &#8212; like they still do in the rest of the world. As far as I know, the US is the only place where we think we have to have our lips glued to a beverage at all times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/binky1.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630\" alt=\"binky\" src=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/binky1.jpeg\" width=\"242\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a trip. In the airport on the way out of town we got drinks at a Coffee People.\u00a0Then I had to throw away the cup. Ow! I could hardly do it. But they\u2019re not eligible for reincarnation, so I had to. The rule of thumb is that anything that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,87,39,152,23],"tags":[154,155,153,132,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}