To think we're approaching the plastic cup problem in entirely the wrong way?

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So far, the main suggestion to replace disposable plastic cups, is a slightly less disposable cup?

We invented genuinely reusable cups quite a long time ago...

We need to start slowing down and actually sitting down for a cuppa again.

Yep thermos drinks taste different. Nowhere near as nice as what I get.

@CurlyhairedAssassin you sound a bit patronising. I'm a fully functioning adult and so I know what I prefer.

I always end up spilling it on myself so rarely get takeaway coffee but I think people should drink their drinks how they like. Couldn't give a shit if people want coffee on the way to work or not.

The coffee itself is beside the point. People are buying themselves a moment, an experience, a tiny capsule of self care. For many it's the only self-serving bubble in a hectic day, especially mothers of young children.

Do the coffee-on-the-commute people not have breakfast, out of interest?

I do, usually a bowl of cereal or two slices of toast.

Is your question why they don’t have their hot beverage with their breakfast (it isn’t clear)? If so, first, because I don’t enjoy mixing the two and second, I generally eat my breakfast while doing two or three other things; I don’t really enjoy bolting my coffee so am happy to leave it until my commute.

And I agree with others, the only thing reasonable to drink from a Thermos is soup. Tea is vile in a thermos.

Butlers, sorry, I don’t mean to sound patronising. I suppose it just comes down to the frustration at life being so different these days that people don’t even have 10 mins to spend at a coffee shop like they do in the rest of Europe. Long commutes are awful, and so are long stressful days. I suppose I wish it weren’t so, but yes i suppose if a coffee in a paper cup is a little thing you can do to make it more pleasant, fair enough.

However I DO still think there are some people who DONT have these stressful lives who do like to signal that they are busy and can’t stop for a coffee. (SOME very part-time working parents on school run, tends tonbe the same ones who turn up in gym gear and couldn’t possibly volunteer for PTA as are so terribly busy. At 9 hours of work a week and no other commitments ? )

I probably don’t have any idea as my commute now is a 10 min drive away so can’t drink on way to work.. Don’t have time for a break at work so stick to water and don’t mind that.

. Lucky, I know (I have down the hellish London tube commute by the way and known exactly how lucky I am).

. I suppose it just comes down to the frustration at life being so different these days that people don’t even have 10 mins to spend at a coffee shop like they do in the rest of Europe

Sorry but this is complete nonsense. Lots of people in the UK have plenty of time to sit in coffee shops. Lots do not, or choose not to. Lotss of people in Europe have plenty of time, lots do not or choose not to.
Why do you think the 750 MILLION people of Europe all have more coffee time than the UK?

People are buying themselves a moment, an experience, a tiny capsule of self care

Sweet Jesus!

I was boggling a bit about that too CressidaEgg.

Boggle away, I actually researched this for a feature haha

A feature?