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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND ecological footprint AND energy at home AND green living AND recycling
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Quick and Dirty
On paper plates |
Umbra Fisk |
28 Jan 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Maybe you can help settle this dispute between my husband and me. He likes to use paper plates for quick/short meals like toast in the morning, cheese and crackers in the evening, etc. He claims that he's saving energy by not having to wash a dish. (We have a new energy-efficient dishwasher and an on-demand hot water heater.) I say he's wasting paper unnecessarily, and besides, I hate seeing paper plates all over the place. Wh ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, ecological footprint, energy at home, green living, recycling (all these topics) |
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