Coming from a country where human beings get butchered on daily bases, dealing with Trash or recycling is never on top of our list. I never thought of disposable objects until I moved to American. It never occurred to me to think about it. I have been in this country. “Well, physically” for over year, but there is still a lot to learn. Waste, and recycle are almost new words to me. I know the meaning them, but it is hard to implement them on day-to-day life.
I thought about this prompt a lot. I looked around and paid attention to my surroundings. I tried to find an object that I can justify is as a “disposable object”. But it was a difficult task to get done. In Afghanistan, we barely use disposable objects. It is new to us, and I even don’t know how to translate “disposable” in my own language.
After looking at different things, I come across disposable coffee cups “made from paper and corn,” it says. “100 per cent compossible.” Coffee cup is one of the objects that often interact with and consider disposable.
International Coffee Agreement Annually, roughly 600 billion paper and plastic cups are used worldwide. it’s estimated that Americans throw away more than 50 billion cups every year. Starbucks alone is responsible for roughly 7 billion cups a year.
Disposable coffee cups are made with a range of materials. Even if the cups aren’t made with the environmental villain Styrofoam, paper cups are often lined with equally problematic plastics.
Disposable coffee cups typically have a plastic resin, or polyethylene, lining. Polyethylene is a petroleum-based plastic, requiring thousands of barrels of oil to line our paper cups every single year.
I internet search shows that coffee cups are able to contain hot liquids, because they’re typically made with plastic-lined paper.