I recently went to a different coffee franchise: Bear Creek Coffee. The coffee was good. The atmosphere was great. Very relaxing. And when I got my small coffee in the little cardboard cup with the cardboard huggie around it, there was a small green piece of plastic sticking out of the lid.
“Very odd,” I thought, ” I wonder what that is.”
I picked up a paper and sat down in a very comfortable chair, and I pulled a substantial piece of plastic out of the sipping hole of the lid labeled “StixToGo”. Its purpose is to keep hot coffee from dripping out and to keep the coffee hot. The green plastic piece is 2 inches long and seems to be a complete waste of plastic. I asked the young girl working behind the counter about it and she said it really worked for keeping coffee inside the cup. I have seen coffee cup lids that have a little sipping cover attached to it with just a small piece of added plastic. This “StixToGo” weighs more than the whole lid.
Plastic comes from oil. As long as we come up with little doodads like this instead of coming up with ways to conserve energy, we will be drowning in plastic and have no way to move our new second homes: our suburban SUVs.
