California City Replacing Toxic Disposable Plastic Cups with Toxic Reusable Plastic Cups, Helping No One

What is the point of replacing a plastic cup with a plastic cup? It’s nonsense.

People are going to drink hot coffee out of this cup?

That is lunacy. You’re just sipping xenoestrogens. This is the cause of the gay epidemic and breast cancer and obesity.

The throwaway cups are only an environmental problem because they refuse to burn them. If they burned the cups, it would be the same as these reusables: the issue would be a personal health problem, not an environmental, ecological, and global health problem.

Cecilia Nowell writes for The Guardian:

A line of purple, plastic cups grows longer on the counter at Avid Coffee as Sam Gearhard takes orders at the Petaluma, California, store on a recent weekday morning.

The cups might seem unassuming, but they’re part of a groundbreaking new scheme that has the community buzzing. Instead of the single-use paper or plastic cups that Gearhard would usually line up for the barista slinging espresso, he’s passing over shiny new reusable cups that bear the slogan “Sip, Return, Repeat”. Customers who need their lattes to go can take the purple cups with them, then return them to one of 60 bins scattered across downtown Petaluma when they’ve finished. Each cup comes with a trackable QR code to help monitor results.

So far, Gearhard says, 30 businesses have opted into the program in downtown Petaluma, a charming wine country city about 50 miles (80km) north of San Francisco. And at Avid, they’ve handed out only reusables since the project started – except to the occasional out-of-towner who asks for a paper cup to take on the road. “It’s been a really nice and easy adjustment for us,” said Gearhard. “I was worried that people wouldn’t take to it as well as they have.”

Holding a cup of coffee as we talk, I’m impressed that the espresso doesn’t burn my hand through the plastic wall. And while their purple hue is very purple, I appreciate that cups are immaculate – clearly more professionally sanitized than similar cups I’ve encountered in food courts and cafeterias. The shops aren’t having to clean the cups themselves – they’re washed by an outside logistics company – meaning there’s one less thing for businesses to factor in as they make the switch.

This month, Petaluma became the first in the US to introduce a city-wide reusable cup program, aimed at reducing the 50bn single-use cups that are bought and thrown away in the US each year. Thirty businesses, ranging from mom and pop shops like Avid to chains like Starbucks and Taco Bell, have agreed to distribute the reusable cups as part of a pilot project.

The initiative comes as California leads the US in the fight to phase out single-use plastics. The states passed a law in 2022 that will require all packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032. Last year, Los Angeles county implemented a ban on single-use plastics in restaurants, and earlier this year, the city of Berkeley rolled out the country’s most comprehensive law on food packaging.

In Petaluma, the reusable cup project is slated to run through November. What comes next depends on how it goes – and how it might be implemented and funded by future cities or businesses.

You should not use these cups. It’s not good. Not good at all.

It’s the same thing as a disposable cup. You can’t put hot liquid in plastic. It is totally insane. You might as well just melt plastic and drink it.

It doesn’t matter if it is reusable.

Maybe it matters a little bit. Maybe if you’ve used the cup 1,000 times, it would shed less plastic. But plastic is so porous, I don’t know. I don’t know.

Why do they not just use stainless steel for this project? They’re acting like it’s a big expensive project. Steel is not that expensive. Starbucks sells nice steel cups that will last forever.

The government has to pay for the Ozempic and the tranny drugs. It would be much cheaper to prevent people from becoming fat and gay.