Renewables
The throw-away economy has higher environmental impacts and costs more. It’s obvious when you say it like that, but it seems that consumer products companies still need convincing. A new study called ‘Reuse wins’ by Upstream has crunched the numbers, comparing the life cycle impacts of disposables versus reusables in the food services sector and found that, on almost every environmental measure, reuse is better. For example, disposable cups have a 3-10 times higher carbon footprint and 7 times higher water footprint. That’s before we factor in issues like waste and resource use. Reuse also save food businesses money.
— Wayne Visser
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