Welcome to our Blog!

The aim of this new blog is to provide a digest and social commentary of all that is new and controversial in the world of catering supplies. disposable tableware and paper cups have had a bad rap recently with the current trends of green policy and waste control, but is there actually more to this topic than meets the eye?

It is all very well suggesting that anything disposable is bad for the environment, but is the situation so black and white? Actually no, it is not. There are many additional factors that would impact this argument, such as the state of the county's recycling policy and manufacturing processes, however the simple truth is that actually a disposable item can be more "green" than a reusable one? How so? Let me explain. A disposable item is very cheap to produce, and requires a minimum of materials to make, it is manufactured en mass and designed for a single use. In contrast to this, let us think about a rigid tumbler designed to be reused many times. Far more energy goes into the production of these items and they draw far more natural resources and materials. With this difference we have highlighted the key weakness of the reusable item; it NEEDS to be reused many many times for it to even break even with the carbon footprint created by the disposable item.

Another key argument would be the recycling potential of these items. Because disposable items can be made of a minimum of materials, they are very easy to recycle and reuse (albeit not as food related items). A reusable container may seem like a sound environmental idea, but it turns out that when it becomes broken or discarded, it is not so easy to recycle afterall.

This is merely an introduction to the themes i intend to discuss in greater depth in this blog, hopefully opening peoples eyes to the media manipulation that is rife with so many companies these days. It turns out the whole topic is more about public appearance than actually saving the planet. Something of an inconvenient truth..?