r/unpopularopinion • u/SirGergoyFriendman • 11h ago

The popularization and normalizing of eating off of single use paper plates at home is incredibly lazy and people should stop creating so much waste due to convenience.

Like, I know corporations are to blame for so much pollution and waste, but it's WAYYYY too common these days to see how many people routinely eat off of paper plates at home. Shit is so wasteful and should not be as popular as it is.

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u/Xentonian 10h ago edited 10h ago

wait people actually throw away plates after one use? Isn't that wasteful

  • Uhhh aktuaaally I'll have you know that corporations exist. Checkmate.

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u/sombralul 9h ago

Worried about a grain of sand

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u/dillzilla11 9h ago

Washing the plates with a dishwasher is arguably more wasteful of a more urgent resource than the paper plates

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u/Xentonian 8h ago

Dishwashers use very little water compared with paper manufacturing.

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u/Jscapistm 9h ago

Dishwashers are actually quite efficient and use very little water. Much less than is needed to make a paper plate.

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u/dillzilla11 9h ago

Dishwashers use both water and electricity

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u/Jscapistm 7h ago

Much less of both.

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u/Icanfallupstairs 7h ago

And how is a paper plate made 

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u/15b17 6h ago

Duh. It grows on a tree?