Sentences with phrase «disposable cups produced»

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Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

Anyone who's been to South by Southwest, Austin City Limits or any of the other big public events in Austin, Texas knows how much waste, in the form of plastic water bottles, plastic beer cups, and disposable paper items, gets produced.

As a result, far too much of the 35 million tons of the stuff produced yearly ends up floating in our oceans, lakes, and streams, or blowing like tumbleweed through our streets and parks, years and decades after it served its brief role as a disposable coffee cup or carrying case for your leftovers.