Presidential Coffee Cup PHOTO: Michael Schwartz
Now when liberal White House officials contemplate throwing their scalding coffees at their conservative counterparts, they won’t have to feel as guilty about it.
Nearly 14 months after President Barack Obama moved into his fancy-smancy executive House, the final vestiges of the Bush Administration — in the form of wasteful hot beverage cups — have finally left the building.
Communications Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality Christine Glunz began reviewing the coffee cup situation last March. She suggested that they use up the remaining stock before purchasing more eco-friendly cups.
A year later, the new shipment has finally arrived. The new cups are made from 12 percent post-consumer recycled content, and the interior lining is 99 percent post-consumer.
They join the Obama-era cold beverage cups that are made from PLA, a plant-derived polylactic acid.
[Via: Politico]
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Did they dispose of them in an ecofriendly way by donating them to the Salvation Army for use or did they simply trash them to add more content to some landfill? Nothing useful should be trashed until it has been used up. Simple recycling theory makes that necessary for it to be ecofriendly. Putting them in a recycle bin before they have been used is not ecofriendly either.
Hmmmm… don’t you think they have enough regular reusable coffee mugs in store from the regan, and hell even the jefferson era?
a disposable culture is not a sustainable culture…
According to the Politico article, they used them — as is mentioned in the post.
Yes, why don’t they just get a bunch of mugs and wash them between uses?