To think using paper plates is the height of lazy.

[TheDarkHouse]

I keep seeing reels and videos of people, mostly (if not all) Americans serving up dinner on either polystyrene plates or paper plates.

AIBU to think that’s laziness/time saving/convenience too far? Most videos these people have decent kitchens so presumably can house a dishwasher. Not that hard, nor time consuming to stack plates.

Disposable tableware for day to day dining seems the height of laziness.

I don't like eating off paper plates.

Lots of meals they really don't work for.

Now camping plastic plates, no problem.

I don't have a problem with being lazy.

A pretty good example of everything that's wrong with the world

Yes it is and I don't care.

Had a case full left over from a party and used them all over time.

Setting aside the environmental issue, I just think there's something so bleak about eating off a paper plate at anything other than a buffet or children's party. I don't know why. I just find it depressing.

I think there are much worse things that are wrong with the world than using paper plates.

Have you been asleep for the last 30 years?

Less trees. More waste.

There are indeed lots of terrible things

There are much better ways to be lazy surely? Eat from the pan then you don't even have to walk to the bin

So all the people saying they use them because they don’t have a dishwasher, (as if that is the only possible way to wash up), how are you washing up all the pots and pans from cooking?

If you have cooking stuff, tea cups, wine glasses to wash up then what difference will a plate make?

You can't recycle them. They're coated in a thin plastic layer for waterproofing, and even if they aren't, they're contaminated by grease.

Pizza boxes also can't be recycled, at least not in the uk, unless the pizza shop puts a layer of greaseproof paper (one of our posh local ones does but most don't). If they do, the greaseproof paper must be binned.

Edit to add - lots of people don't know this and put pizza boxes in recycling which can contaminates the rest of their recycling

Very lazy and scuzzy.

That's awful Stop. Just wash up.

Nope, I had cancer then a stroke, I have a dd who has regular seizures who I care for, I can't use my arm due to my cancer/stroke, some days its fucking hard and I can't be arsed washing up.

Bugger off with your sanctimonious "that's awful" as if you're perfect. I bet I do far more to reduce my carbon footprint than you do anyways. You're just making yourself sound like an arsehole.

But for every person like you who has a valid reason there is someone who doesn’t.

Us horrible people in the US. You don't want to use paper plates, don't. So many posts complain about us. Take care of your country.

OK? And for every person who uses a paper plate there's someone who says "but cars and long haul holidays are hard to give up" as justification for their choices, while feeling all high and mighty because they dont use paper plates, as demonstrated on this thread.

We all do shit things for the environment, let's not pretend that paper plates are the devil reincarnated. They are absolutely on the very mild end of shit things. Using a dishwasher (as recommended on the thread) is a lot worse than a few paper plates. Plus every one of us is sitting here tapping away on a phone or computer, which are awful for the environment too.

We all do our best where we can, but we all make shitty decisions for the sake of convenience too sometimes. However much anyone denies it.

I'm not a fan but I'm renovating and have been without a kitchen for six months, so if I have guests I do sometimes break and use them

Pretty shocked with how many people think this is ok! I've washed dishes in the sink for weeks while we had kitchen redone (incredibly slowly!), and I never thought of doing this! So bloody lazy and awful for the environment

I give my daughter her lunch on a paper plate as she has a little bit of mayo on the side with her sandwich (I know weird) and I hate scraping leftover mayo off into the bin so that it doesn't go down the drain (Fatbergs are caused by stuff like mayo going down drains or pumped out by dishwashers). I don't give anybody a main meal on a paper plate though. Unless it's a BBQ or party

I don't think any of my crockery is porcelain. Not posh you say?

I still want to know why the people who can’t possibly wash a plate are unable to wash it with the rest of the pans and cups.

It's wasteful. It will almost certainly end up in landfill. The health of the environment is a concern for us all.

Why would pans and cups be involved?

Usually its a toastie or a sandwich or similar and I fill my water bottle up.

I don't think anyone who is wanting an easy night is cooking a full on Sunday roast and then shoving it on a paper plate.