Coffee mug

PLEDGE: Coffee mug
 
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I drink a lot of coffee at work. The styrofoam cups are located next to the pot. Many cups are used on any given day. Each time a person passes the brewed coffee they grab a new cup.
What a waste as they are made from petrolium products.
Now I make sure that I take my coffee on each trip, in my own coffee mug.
I do not want to contribute to the throw away waste.
Tom

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Originally submitted by zenmaster1 on 26 Nov 2007

Good on you! I have tried to

On November 27th, 2007 queen_of_denial says:

Good on you! I have tried to fight that battle at work and made some progress. I have printed out a list of all the health hazards of polystyrene cups and placed it right next to the cup supply. At least a couple of people have changed but its bizarre how stubborn people can be about these kinds of issues. They seem to think its someone elses responsibility to provide them with coffee mugs!

Why not also begin to badger

On November 27th, 2007 Moog says:

Why not also begin to badger the office about heading over to the op shop and buying a boxful of second hand coffee mugs - arcaroc mugs hold about the same amount of coffee, and they are reusable! A lot of workplaces do have a staff supply of coffee mugs... and it is cheaper for the office in the long run - as you don't have to buy replacements every week!

cups

On November 28th, 2007 kakariki25 says:

be the change you wish to see in the world

those arcaroc cups are the bomb , i picked up 6 for 10cents each from the local hospice shop, the amount the hold is great as well, not too little and not too much

been there already..

On November 28th, 2007 queen_of_denial says:

I did bring all my excess coffee mugs in from home....and STILL they insist on using the plastic ones :) you can lead a horse to water.....

how about

On November 10th, 2007 Uglyduckling says:

you tell your team why you bring your coffee cup and encourage them to get a cup too - or put a sign by the coffee pot - "bring your own cup and be eco-friendly"

"we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we mearly borrow it from our children" Indian Proverb

BYO Mug

On November 11th, 2007 jojo says:

Good idea,

If I get a coffee from the cafe near my office, I take my own coffee mug with me and get them to fill it for me. Most the others at my work do it too, and so now they recognise us. You could try asking for a discount for people from your workplace that take their own mug, becuase it saves the cafe the cost of using a throw-away one.

At the moment I'm using a thermos mug that I take with me. It's good becuase it keeps my drinks warm and it's non-spill too. When I was at Uni we called them 'lug-a-mug's becuase we always lugged them around with us.

Can anyone recommend a good

On July 11th, 2008 nicole says:

Can anyone recommend a good reusable coffee cup that fits most coffee machines in cafes and has a leak-proof lid?

Think outside the square (or cup in this case)

On July 14th, 2008 Skeptic says:

Hey guys,
How about looking at this problem another way, and asking yourself why you're drinking all that coffee? It's all imported, uses water and electricity and various packaging, so in no way is any good for the environment. Using your own mugs and cups helps a bit but what about all that water and detergent used for cleaning them.
Drinking coffee is arguably an unecessary want, not a need; surely a better approach both for the environment and your own health is to simply drink good old fashioned water? And think of all that money you'll save.

Think outside the square

On July 18th, 2008 Noel Fuller says:

Quite right Skeptic! More than that coffee and tea, being cash crops are a waste of arable land. A number of countries depend on these crops for much of their income but that income is rarely for the benefit of the large numbers of poor who get displaced by large scale cash cropping from the land that once supported them.

Noel

Coffee? A drug?

On July 22nd, 2008 Lusea says:

I always thought that coffee was disgusting and it's interesting that teenagers and children normally can't stand the stuff but then are addicted when they're older. Sort of like most people hate drugs at first then become addicted quickly. I resolve never to learn to love coffee or tea but to stick with my delicious herbal teas, some of which are fair trade and some of which are organic.

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It's silly to suggest

On August 25th, 2008 nicole says:

It's silly to suggest everyone should go without coffee! There are far worse things in the world than coffee. And yes coffee is a want, not a need, but why should we stop doing everything we want?

By the way, coffee has a lot of caffeine in it, and caffeine is a drug. So coffee IS a drug technically.