Why you should wash your damn spoon

By Miriam Goldstein, on August 9th, 2011 3 comments   Plastic   marine debris, plastic pollution  

Poster by Max Temkin, via Grist.

 

3 comments to Why you should wash your damn spoon

• Beth Shady

  August 9, 2011 at 16:41 · Reply

  Great point. I am a complete convert to no plastics.

• John Carroll

  August 9, 2011 at 23:47 · Reply

  Does licking the spoon clean count?

• Ralf Muschall

  August 10, 2011 at 12:39 · Reply

  The problem with this is that the effort [0] is not only *considered* less, but really *is* less (otherwise market forces would solve the problem, which they obviously didn’t – the menace of disposable dishes and cutlery is spreading also here in Germany). IOW, the trouble with mankind is that we minimize effort only, wasting everything else.

  [0] Even if we take into account that the refined oil is probably shipped to e.g. Korea to make polystyrene pellets which are shipped to China to make spoons.