I suggest that the usual reasons apply to our failure to use re-usable cups: convenience, idleness, aka not caring and, most of all, ignorance. We no longer have plastic or polystyrene cups; instead we have paper cups. Therefore, they MUST be recylable, otherwise why would we use them? Ignorance rules nine times out of ten: when most Kiwis (and other nationalities for that matter) believe that recycling is the best thing they can do to slow down the climate crisis, you know we have a lot of education still to do.
The comment about Covid reminds me of a truly bizarre incident the other day. I went into a cafe for a nice, vegan pie and a bottle of beer. The beer was presented to me, duly opened, in a bottle. I don't like drinking from a bottle, if there's an alternative and so I asked for a glass. The server said that, 'since Covid', she was not really supposed to offer a glass - which was also why I had to eat my pie out of a paper bag, instead of off a plate. I can only assume that the cafe didn't have a dishwasher, or that it was below standard. However, the incredible irony of this was not only that my bottle, undoubtedly, had been handled by many people, but it had foil wrapped around its neck - a far from hygienice concept. And yet it was OK for me to wrap my mouth around this, but not for me to pour the beer into a clean glass!
And why has the Government made a U-turn on bottom trawling? I suspect Shane Jones would be the answer.
I suggest that the usual reasons apply to our failure to use re-usable cups: convenience, idleness, aka not caring and, most of all, ignorance. We no longer have plastic or polystyrene cups; instead we have paper cups. Therefore, they MUST be recylable, otherwise why would we use them? Ignorance rules nine times out of ten: when most Kiwis (and other nationalities for that matter) believe that recycling is the best thing they can do to slow down the climate crisis, you know we have a lot of education still to do.
The comment about Covid reminds me of a truly bizarre incident the other day. I went into a cafe for a nice, vegan pie and a bottle of beer. The beer was presented to me, duly opened, in a bottle. I don't like drinking from a bottle, if there's an alternative and so I asked for a glass. The server said that, 'since Covid', she was not really supposed to offer a glass - which was also why I had to eat my pie out of a paper bag, instead of off a plate. I can only assume that the cafe didn't have a dishwasher, or that it was below standard. However, the incredible irony of this was not only that my bottle, undoubtedly, had been handled by many people, but it had foil wrapped around its neck - a far from hygienice concept. And yet it was OK for me to wrap my mouth around this, but not for me to pour the beer into a clean glass!
And why has the Government made a U-turn on bottom trawling? I suspect Shane Jones would be the answer.