Sold and marketed as environmentally friendly, compostable food packaging has been exploding in popularity in Australia. But is it any better than the plastic it's replaced?
It would be no surprise for lemmings that the best for the environment would be to reduce consumption, then reuse what you already bought, then recycle (including composting and whatever) what lost usefulness. In this order. Regardless of methane, compostable cups are not the solution - the solution is to not use disposable cups on first place, unless you have a pretty good reason to do it.
It would be no surprise for lemmings that the best for the environment would be to reduce consumption, then reuse what you already bought, then recycle (including composting and whatever) what lost usefulness. In this order. Regardless of methane, compostable cups are not the solution - the solution is to not use disposable cups on first place, unless you have a pretty good reason to do it.