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brooklyn1

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:34:14 GMT, (Cindy Hamilton)
wrote:

>In article >,
>Julie Bove > wrote:
>>
>>What's the diff? Paper plates are very cheap and I can often get them for
>>free. And here they don't go into the landfill. They are recycled. If you
>>want to waste soap, hot water, bleach, etc. to wash your cutting boards,
>>have at it!
>
>Have you ever been in the vicinity of a paper mill? More resources are
>used up in making a paper plate than in washing any cutting board.

That's not entirely true... millions of paper plates are produced in a
day, causing no more pollution than for producing one paper plate...
you need to distribute the waste fairly. Hand washing dishes pollutes
more than paper plates. But I'm still not going to do knife work on a
paper plate for reasons other than pollution.