As someone that dorsn't have a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, and lives alone, these things make life better ten times over.

I can't imagine my life without paper plates and plastic cups.

k.

you technically need 2 of those each day
that's about 30 plates per 2 weeks
5.50x3 is 16.50 every two weeks, or 33 every month
that's almost $400 every year.
that being said, you are not poor, just stupid.

>>21467791
You mean $40 a year.

>>21467580 (OP)
you live alone and you still can't manage to wash dishes? you should only need one plate, bowl, cups, and set of utensils, especially if you don't have a dishwasher.
what are you doing man

>>21467580 (OP)
>creating waste because you're too lazy to spend 5 minutes a day cleaning dishes
unironically kill yourself

>>21469725
Adding to this I’d argue that as long as you’re cleaning the plate of food that you can use the same plate for a whole day

>>21467580 (OP)
Rinsing dishes when you live alone is so easy. I care about the environment more than you do. I hope you at least recycle the cups. Most of it doesn't get recycled actually but you gotta try. It doesn't cost more.

>>21469783
>uguguuu waste
It's fucking paper dipshit. It's literally faster biodegrading than dead tree limbs, grass and dried weeds. AKA NATURE.

>>21469734
This. Washing up for one person is easy and takes hardly any time, even considering cookware (especially if you have good kitchen workflow and know how to clean up while you cook so that you have minimal cookware left to clean after the meal). Dish washers are for people with an entire family, and paper plates are for picnics.

Not only is it lazy and wasteful to rely on disposables for everyday use, I would find it bad for my morale. Food neatly arranged on a nice plate has a more appetizing appearance, at any rate.

>>21470591
It's not about how fast it biodegrades (in that respect, paper plates are at least an order of magnitude better than plastic or styrofoam). It's about the decades the trees that paper is made from took to grow, and all of the energy, human labor, and chemical resources that went into harvesting them and turning them into paper. Disposables have a place, especially biodegradable ones, but we shouldn't be wantonly wasteful with them just because they won't be sitting in a landfill for eons.

yeah and as a single guy you can also reuse anything that doesn't leave a residue or taste ie plastic cup has near unlimited uses if you're just pouring diet coke in it etc

>>21470754
>It's not about how fast it biodegrades (in that respect, paper plates are at least an order of magnitude better than plastic or styrofoam). It's about the decades the trees that paper is made from took to grow, and all of the energy, human labor, and chemical resources that went into harvesting them and turning them into paper. Disposables have a place, especially biodegradable ones, but we shouldn't be wantonly wasteful with them just because they won't be sitting in a landfill for eons

China dumped my entire lifetime’s worth of plastic into the ocean in the time it took you to type this

>>21467580 (OP)
good, you fat american retards should be consuming microplastics with every meal

I only ever use paper plates for entertaining guests I don't care about impressing. In-laws, kid's friends, wife's friends.

>>21467791
just OMAD