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Defensive Packaging
From a bag containing Styrofoam cups:
The package reads, in part:
- “Foam cups insulate better than paper cups. When you consider the fact that consumers frequently use two paper cups when drinking hot beverages like coffee, the environmental advantages of using foam cups are even more evident.
- “Foam cups make up less than 1 percent, by weight and volume, of material generated and /or disposed of in the solid waste stream (U.S. EPA Characterization of Solid Waste: 1997 Update).
- “Foam cups use less energy and are cleaner to produce than paper cups, according to articles in Consumer’s Research and Environmental Management by Dr. Martin D. Hocking, a chemistry professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.”
Something makes me think that the manufacturer of Styrofoam cups is feeling threatened. Personally, I don’t find these arguments very convincing. If anything, they make me wonder how much worse Styrofoam is for the environment than I thought. Do you suppose the copywriter was a Greenpeace saboteur?
