re: #415 prairiefire

Without a dishwasher, aren’t you just splashing a bit of soap and water in it, at work, shaking it over the sink and then wiping it on your pants? Every dish towel or sponge is usually filthy in an office kitchen.

You actually use more soap and water by hand than when you use most modern dishwashers. And yeah, the amount of water seems small, but when you consider it as a daily use, you’re using a ton over the course of a year. I’m not even saying the bamboo cups were definitely, definitively the right call, but more that there’s not any simple calculations to go with and that gut instincts with sustainability are often wrong. Like all those stainless steel mugs that were popular for awhile and were somehow marketed as sustainable, as if producing steel is somehow a low-energy process.