… I dunno. Plates are easy to wash. There’s a push to get rid of plastic plates and all that because it’s a waste that’s not necessary if you just used regular stoneware plates...
Plus I don’t know what kind of disposable dinnerware you’re looking at but here in the Netherlands we mostly have these shitty flimsy plastic plates, if you were to put a hot meatball on that it just might burn a hole through the plate. If you’re living on your own, how hard is it to wash a plate?
You can use the water and soap you used to clean the plate for flushing out the first layer of crap out of the pan. Put the pan into the sink, then wash your plate. The water will end up in the pan. Your plate will most likely not be all that greasy compared to the pan.
Come on, water is easily renewable and degradable. Plastic is definitely not and even though paper is recyclable, it costs a lot more energy than a fair amount of water and a drop of soap.
Good point. This also helps me guess whether hot-air hand-dryers are more efficient than paper towels.
(I had read “paper towels save energy compared to hot-air driers” and I thought “what about the paper?”, or was it “hot-air driers save paper compared to paper towels” and I thought “what about the energy?”? Or both?)
… I dunno. Plates are easy to wash. There’s a push to get rid of plastic plates and all that because it’s a waste that’s not necessary if you just used regular stoneware plates...
Plus I don’t know what kind of disposable dinnerware you’re looking at but here in the Netherlands we mostly have these shitty flimsy plastic plates, if you were to put a hot meatball on that it just might burn a hole through the plate. If you’re living on your own, how hard is it to wash a plate?
It’s not obvious to me how that compares to the waste of water and soap in using disposable plates.
Just stack several of them.
You can use the water and soap you used to clean the plate for flushing out the first layer of crap out of the pan. Put the pan into the sink, then wash your plate. The water will end up in the pan. Your plate will most likely not be all that greasy compared to the pan.
That would protect the table from getting dirty, but not your stomach from digesting melted plastic.
Come on, water is easily renewable and degradable. Plastic is definitely not and even though paper is recyclable, it costs a lot more energy than a fair amount of water and a drop of soap.
Good point. This also helps me guess whether hot-air hand-dryers are more efficient than paper towels.
(I had read “paper towels save energy compared to hot-air driers” and I thought “what about the paper?”, or was it “hot-air driers save paper compared to paper towels” and I thought “what about the energy?”? Or both?)
I use paper plates, bowls, and cups. Plastic utensils.
Paper.… cups?
If you’re wondering how you can hold water in something made of paper, they’re “often lined or coated with plastic or wax to prevent liquid from leaking out or soaking through the paper”.