Reusable cups worse for environment than disposable ones, expert says

Many of us give ourselves a pat on the back for remembering our reusable coffee cup. However, the average person is not using their cup enough times before forgetting about it or throwing it away, according to Caroline Wood, a PhD researcher in food security at the University of Sheffield. A reusable cup would need to be used between 20 and 100 times in order to have lower emissions than a disposable cup, she writes in a piece for The Conversation. This is because more greenhouse emissions are released when making a durable product, and also because they need to be washed between uses...MORE