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BlueMikey · Local time: May 31, 2007, 01:37 PM

(to avoid using the styrofoam(sp?) cups the company provides)

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2004...p_coffee_c.php

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It seems that a ceramic cup is a real greedy vessel when it comes to energy and water consumption and not much better as a contributor to air pollution and solid waste.

With energy you'd have to use the ceramic cup 640 times before it would equal a polystyrene cup and 294 times to equal a paper/cardboard one. With air pollution it takes 1,800 uses to beat the polystyrene and 48 to thrash the paper/cardboard. Likewise you would have to drink 126 and 99 cups respectively for the ceramic to compete with polystyrene and paper/cardboard on the waste issue. And water? Sorry, just the use of a ceramic cup totals more than the entire life cycle water consumption of the other two.

Of course, it also states a ceramic cup can be used 3,000 times. But you have to be one of those people who uses a ceramic cup 3,000 times. Most people I know have several coffee mugs that they rotate for a couple years, never getting those 1,800 (or even 640) uses out of it.

Originally Posted by Adara

I have slowly been replacing the light bulbs in our house with those energy-saving ones that last a really long time.

So you love mercury poisoning.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

BlueMikey · Local time: Jun 1, 2007, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Adara

Not particularly. I had no clue there was a link between the bulbs and mercury poisoning. All I've heard is that they need to be disposed of properly because of the mercury they contain. Does the poisoning happen from regularly using them like you're supposed to or just if you break the glass and expose yourself to the mercury inside?

Well, either if you break it or when it finally goes out. Who knows how to dispose of mercury correctly?

There's nowhere I can't reach.