Why design fancy cups that work like disposables? Just sit down an smell the coffee.
Katherine recently wrote about a radical solution to disposable coffee cups- an insulated stainless steel mug that you borrow like a library book. It was addressing this problem:
Next time you're walking down a city street, take a moment to notice how many people are carrying disposable coffee cups. A lot, right? It almost seems like an addiction, this compulsion to carry one's drink everywhere, and it comes at a steep environmental cost.
And I wondered, how did we get like this? What is convenient or comfortable about walking with a disposable paper and plastic adult sippy cup?
© 1955: Police officer Harris from Nassau County, Long Island, drinks a cup of coffee in his local diner. (Photo by Carsten/Three Lions/Getty Images)
