who killed the electric coffeepot?

[topaz]

Can anyone hazard an informed guess about how the carbon cost of drinking coffee out of a paper cup every day stacks up against the cost of, say, breaking a ceramic mug once a year?

Purely hypothetically, of course.

Comments

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

The concern I hear most often with aluminium is about Alzheimer's Disease. (http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/suppl_2/17) I don't personally worry about it in water bottles, but I think your caution about acidic liquids is probably sensible! I always thought steel had a higher manufacturing cost than aluminium, but it looks like I actually made that up.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

There's a HUGE causation/correlation problem with the association between Alzheimer's and aluminum.

Since buying something new is environmentally a poor choice, what about buying a used mug?