Rezwan wrote: …
E.g., average consumer cost is just a few cents. And benefit is more. And now you get double paper cups at Starbucks instead of styrofoam. Cry me a river.
And now, of course, it turns out that full accounting of emissions and energy use etc. shows styrofoam to be more environmentally friendly. This is characteristic of many of the “half-cocked” solutions which have been implemented, and even more true of the Goracle’s ideas. See
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21494
