Switching from clay to plastic at the scale of Indian tea-drinking was such an all-round disaster: environment, design/experience, flavor...
I still have these in memoriam. twitter.com/jmanooch/statu
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This is a pernicious idea, that clay pots are “sustainable”. Clay pots/kulhars are basically unglazed ceramic/glass and making them irreversibly destroys topsoil. It may look more aesthetic/natural than plastic but is an equally awful pollutant. At modern scales it would be worse
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There was a big discussion on this like 20 years back when Laloo Yadav was railway minister and tried to impose kulhars by policy and environmentalists came out against it. You’ll have to dig for the details.
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Ah so they thought crappy plastic cups at massive scale were a less “pernicious” idea 🤔🙄
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I’ll let you do the math on replacing all plastic with kulhars and tonnage of clay soil required etc if you’re actually curious. Plastic is a problem with highly distorted perceptions as the plastic straw/turtle case shows.
The opposition to the clay/kulhar idea and the ensuing debate was not really settled. There are alternatives to using topsoil that make it more ecofriendly. In the end, it was really a cost/logistics issue, plastic is 3x/4x cheaper etc. a link : outlookindia.com/magazine/story
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