Stainless steel is a great replacement, but it gets stolen a lot in places that implement it.
Hell, even reusable plastic containers get stolen:
https://packagingeurope.com/news/reusable-mcdonalds-packagin...
Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
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#12Thats why I always bring my 2 liter ceramic jug whenever I go on a coffee date
You never know what could be in that ceramic, though. I recommend to just use your hands and let your date drink from them.
Glass is probably least risky...
There is a reason most chemistry equipment is made of glass...
Even then, there are quite a lot of glass additives, contaminants and cleaning products which can pose some risk
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#13Oh, yeah, that's no secret. Anything that touches food is lined to within an inch of its life with plastic. There's no escaping that. Every soda can you drink, most of your reusable water bottles, all that supposedly eco-friendly packaging is loaded with plastic. And they can BPA-free you all they want, but they just keep shifting to newer, less tested substances that don't have a bad reputation yet.
There's glass. Has been around for 3000+ years.
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#14Thats why I always bring my 2 liter ceramic jug whenever I go on a coffee date
You mean fancy ceramic which is usually glazed with lead[1]?
[1]: https://digitalfire.com/glossary/lead+in+ceramic+glazes
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#15Oh, yeah, that's no secret. Anything that touches food is lined to within an inch of its life with plastic. There's no escaping that. Every soda can you drink, most of your reusable water bottles, all that supposedly eco-friendly packaging is loaded with plastic. And they can BPA-free you all they want, but they just keep shifting to newer, less tested substances that don't have a bad reputation yet.
There's glass . Has been around for 3000+ years.
Glass sucks. That's why we stopped using it.
It's expensive, it's brittle, it's heavy, it takes up a lot of space.
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#16Oh, yeah, that's no secret. Anything that touches food is lined to within an inch of its life with plastic. There's no escaping that. Every soda can you drink, most of your reusable water bottles, all that supposedly eco-friendly packaging is loaded with plastic. And they can BPA-free you all they want, but they just keep shifting to newer, less tested substances that don't have a bad reputation yet.
There is plastic-free paper and cardboard packaging. But that is normally loaded with PFAS which is used to stop paper from breaking down when exposed to food fats. However PFAS is a chemical that accumulates in the human body and has been linked to cancer, liver damager, decreased fertility, asthma, and thyroid damage.
So yeah, you can remove the plastic lining from paper, but that severely decreases our quality of life.
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#17Oh, yeah, that's no secret. Anything that touches food is lined to within an inch of its life with plastic. There's no escaping that. Every soda can you drink, most of your reusable water bottles, all that supposedly eco-friendly packaging is loaded with plastic. And they can BPA-free you all they want, but they just keep shifting to newer, less tested substances that don't have a bad reputation yet.
There's glass . Has been around for 3000+ years.
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#19> ... A thin plastic film lines paper cups ...
Sigh.
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#20This was a strange read. "Just as toxic" reads, obviously, as "as bad as", with the implication that paper is as bad as plastic. But the article ignores paper entirely and focuses on the use of PLA liners in (some) paper cups and lids. So, already there is obviously far less potentially toxic material and so already the title is untrue. Then the article states that there are "as many chemicals" in PLA as regular plas…
Whether there is a microscopic lining, or the plastic is an inch thick, the amount that leaches off, especially in the presence of a hot food substance, that's the amount that's harmful, and any leaching is going to be in small, frequent doses over a large period of time, and that's the harm they'll find.
That isn't at all what they are studying, so while you may be correct, the point is irrelevant. The article is specifically about degredation in wet soil.