Which is more green: using paper (not plastic or styrofoam) plate or using the water/power to wash glass ones

Wow that's one tricky pony....Good one...





I think in the long run probably using glass plates would be both economical and green. May be I'm wrong but I'm thinking of it like this...


Glass Plates :


1) Manufacturing time environemental damage


2) marketing environmental damage


3) usage of water to clean every day...water has to be pumped and we use power to do that.


4) No recurring cost.


Paper plates:


1) Manufaturing time


2) Marketing


3) No water to clean...but energy used to recycle.


4) Recurring cost...gotta buy one more packet of plates after you finish one.


Moreover, I don't really believe the re cycled ones are transformed into paper plates again......(can't imagine anything else except tissue papers) ;)Which is more green: using paper (not plastic or styrofoam) plate or using the water/power to wash glass ones
Depends on how you wash it. Do you use a half full dishwasher with a dry cycle or leave the water running when you wash it in a sink or just rinse it out with cold water after each use and wash only once a day?Which is more green: using paper (not plastic or styrofoam) plate or using the water/power to wash glass ones
Using water to wash glass plates is more green. In the Philippines it cost only around one liter of fuel to pruduce 1000 liters of water. Water if not pump will also go to the direction of the sea. So, one liter of fuel can wash 1000 plates. We dont have to cut trees and burn fuel to produce paper. Producing paper and glass plates will almost consume the same fuel. In using glass, we dont cut trees
i would think washing your glass ones because you have to keep in mind the power it took to produce the paper plates also and i bet it was more than a dishwasher put out. if you hand wash it would be even better.
doing the dishes is greener that using disposable stuff