[GreenYes] Re: reusable cups vs. paper

["Thomas Shelley" <tjs1@no.address>]

At 06:26 AM 3/20/2008 -0700, you wrote:
> I have a client who wants to know
> if there is any more "official" word
> on this. 

Elizabeth--If you used a paper cup once and a ceramic cup once the paper
cup would use less energy over its life cycle.  If you used a
ceramic cup thousands of times it would cost less per use over its life
cycle than the use of thousands of paper cups.   Besides, it's
logically the better choice to reduce our consumption of one-time use
items, to zero if possible.  This is not "official", but
you can make it be so if you want to.   Have a wonderful
day.   Tom

Tom Shelley
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

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