ponderings from the dairy aisle
Oct. 11th, 2006 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Most of the time (where I shop), milk comes in plastic containers.
Occasionally, it comes in the waxy cardboard ones instead. Last night I
actually had a choice, and realized I don't know which one is more
green. Plastic can be recycled (good) and the cardboard can't, but I
have the impression that producing the plastic container is more
destructive to the environment -- and, of course, you also have to
factor in the costs of recycling. Trash in a landfill also imposes a
cost, and means that cost of production is borne entirely by one use.
Overall, I don't know which one is less bad.
Which would you buy?
Re: Only slightly on-topic
Date: 2006-10-13 01:33 am (UTC)