Cutest coffee cup ever!
I was using disposable cups for my coffee at work because my old jack-o-lantern cup broke, but I was feeling guilty about it. As far as I know, that styrofoam ends up in the ocean, where it is eaten by sea birds, and fills up some poor albatross's stomach, never to be digested, until finally it crowds out all the room for real food and starves the poor thing to death.
An albatross skeleton. Note the stomach contents from accidentally eating human trash.
So, thinking about that basically made me want to kill myself so there would be one less polluter, but instead I went out and bought this adorable coffee cup:
It's ceramic with a silicone sleeve and lid. Plus it's pink. Basically the best thing in the world.
As for those poor albatrosses, I'm also trying to drink zero bottled water and just get it all out of the tap. Cos look at his belly, lots of the trash they eat is bottle caps. And that way my water is fluoridated, and probably has plenty of hormones and cholesterol-lowering drugs leeched into it from all the aging baby boomers, so I can start my drug regimen early, too. Win-win.
8 Comments
Leave a comment
"As far as I know, that styrofoam ends up in the ocean."
It's worse than you think. Plastic that isn't dumped in landfills (which is to say, about 50% of all the world's plastic) actually ends up being carried by ocean currents into one of the few places where those currents terminate, resulting a few gigantic floating garbage patches; the one in the North Pacific is actually bigger than the entire United States.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch
and
http://5gyres.org
for details.
That cup is adorable. I've seen some like that in white but the pink is a lot better. Were there other colors?
Jason, thanks for the links! Back to suicidal again!
Joey, I seem to remember baby blue, too. Do you want one? :)
FALSE ADVERTISING!!!
I click on the link, thinking that I'm going to see an adorable, possibly amusing, new coffee cup and am confronted with a dead bird. :(
Your fine can be paid by posting pictures of adorable LIVE kittens, or a hamster on a piano eating popcorn.
Hahahahaha Mindy!!! You're right, I'm so sorry. I'll try to post a doggy photo or something tomorrow. :)
I can't believe you killed that albatross.
I think baby blue would be adorable. Where did you find yours?
You are so great! I love my cup. It's going to make all the other people at work so jealous. They already roll their eyes at me because they all use styrofoam cups every day and I won't use them of course. THANKS!!!!!