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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I don’t but I find the case against plastic to be largely based on unexamined aesthetic assumptions and no analysis. That’s how you end up with media ignoring fish net waste (40% of oceanic plastic) and trying to ban plastic straws (< 1%) on the strength of a turtle photo.
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I like them too, but there is a tendency in India to fetishize artisan modes of production especially by populist politicians to pander to tiny medieval-origin communities that simply couldn’t deal with modern scales. Started with Gandhi and hand loom textiles.

