Paper Plates vs. Washing Dishes
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Hmm.
Cost analysis: Trips to the store (fuel, wear/tear on car), cost of paper plates, your time.
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What you use to wash proper plates.
I use hot water/salt to clean my dishes. In terms of time it costs me next to nothing (boiling water while I do something else, soaking dishes while I do something else) + the tiny amount of time to wipe dishes.
Cost analysis: Trips to the store (fuel, wear/tear on car), cost of paper plates, your time.
Vs
What you use to wash proper plates.
I use hot water/salt to clean my dishes. In terms of time it costs me next to nothing (boiling water while I do something else, soaking dishes while I do something else) + the tiny amount of time to wipe dishes.
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From a pure COST analysis, it's likely proper plates are probably cheaper in the long run... depending of course on the cost of the plates, how often your kids break them and how you wash them.
From an ENVIRONMENTAL analysis, it's a bit more complicated. In the People's Republic of California... mostly because of our STUPID government... water and electricity are in short supply. It takes a lot of water to make paper (and thus paper plates) and typically involves cutting down forests (which adds to global warming, if you believe in that) and they eventurally end up in the landfill which are very near their capacity in CA (we're already trucking trash to Arizona and Mexico, burning fossil fuels to do so). BUT it takes energy and water to wash plates and there are other issues of those plates are plastic.
Me? I don't worry about it. Step one: kick the wackos out of our state government. Maybe we can send our governor to the White House and get rid of him that way?
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From an ENVIRONMENTAL analysis, it's a bit more complicated. In the People's Republic of California... mostly because of our STUPID government... water and electricity are in short supply. It takes a lot of water to make paper (and thus paper plates) and typically involves cutting down forests (which adds to global warming, if you believe in that) and they eventurally end up in the landfill which are very near their capacity in CA (we're already trucking trash to Arizona and Mexico, burning fossil fuels to do so). BUT it takes energy and water to wash plates and there are other issues of those plates are plastic.
Me? I don't worry about it. Step one: kick the wackos out of our state government. Maybe we can send our governor to the White House and get rid of him that way?
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