Do you have a travel coffee mug? And if you do -
how often do you remember to bring it along with you and actually use it? Meanwhile,
how often do you find yourself ordering your coffee or other beverage of your
choice in a disposable cup?
These simple questions can be quite essential
when it comes to sustainability and care for the environment. Using a reusable
travel coffee mug may seem like a non-relevant habit, but in actuality it can
make a huge difference in the global movement towards waste reduction.
Ask your local coffee shop manager or owner how
often their customers bring in their own mugs or stay in to drink their hot
beverages from in-house mugs, and I am pretty sure that the answer will be that
the percentage is strikingly low.
The way to help the reduction of waste is to
remember to take and refill your own travel mug on a daily basis, or in case
you have forgotten it - to stay in the coffee shop and enjoy your coffee in one
of their reusable in-house mugs instead. If using a disposable cup is
inevitable, make sure you recycle it properly once you are done with your
coffee.
Keep in mind that billions of disposable cups
are being used and thrown away every year, and this is having a serious impact
on the waste disposal rates, plus their production causes the consumption of
huge amounts of natural resources and the emission of large quantities of
harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and leading to further deepening of
the climate change related problems we are faced with.
Fortunately, there are ways to limit this
damage. The simple solution is to choose to reuse your coffee mug. Keep a
travel mug in your car or in your daily bag. Not only will you feel happy with
your personal contribution to the reduction of the waste, the use of resources
as well as for the pollution, but you will find that more and more coffee shop
owners offer discounts for customers who choose to bring in their own mugs and cups.
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