Developed by researchers from China's Northeast Forestry University, the bamboo plastic can biodegrade in soil within 50 days and offers a pathway towards sustainable plastic alternatives.
Demand varies and there are a LOT of warehouses on the way from the cup factory to the starbucks. Cups can EASILY spend a month or three just sitting in a damp cardboard box at a distribution center. Which is “fine” because they have at least one or two more layers of outer packaging around the stack of venti iced coffee cups.
So they just test it to check if it’s fine or not fine? And then make changes accordingly?
Those “changes” are throwing out a significant part of your inventory and, if you have the money, ordering more. So the shipping and manufacturing costs for the same number of plastic cups (or whatever) becomes over 2x because you ALSO have the cost of taking the box of slop to the landfill.
I 100% agree change is necessary. But it is also worth thinking before making the change and deciding if it would actually save on “carbon”.
Well at least it’s biodegradable slop! My experience is it comes with instructions that are inevitably ignored and there’s some heavy sighing, eye rolling, shrugging and it’s put down as “short-term operational variance from sustainability transition” or something else that says “it won’t happen again, guv”
Demand varies and there are a LOT of warehouses on the way from the cup factory to the starbucks. Cups can EASILY spend a month or three just sitting in a damp cardboard box at a distribution center. Which is “fine” because they have at least one or two more layers of outer packaging around the stack of venti iced coffee cups.
So they just test it to check if it’s fine or not fine? And then make changes accordingly? Change is necessary and inevitable
Those “changes” are throwing out a significant part of your inventory and, if you have the money, ordering more. So the shipping and manufacturing costs for the same number of plastic cups (or whatever) becomes over 2x because you ALSO have the cost of taking the box of slop to the landfill.
I 100% agree change is necessary. But it is also worth thinking before making the change and deciding if it would actually save on “carbon”.
Well at least it’s biodegradable slop! My experience is it comes with instructions that are inevitably ignored and there’s some heavy sighing, eye rolling, shrugging and it’s put down as “short-term operational variance from sustainability transition” or something else that says “it won’t happen again, guv”