A lot of stuff from the grocery store has to come in a container. Corn flakes, milk, Quaker Oats, ground coffee. And a lot of other stuff too.
Ground coffee is sold in tin cans, cardboard cans, solid plastic jugs and "paper" bags. I call the bag material paper but it probably has a lot of plastic in it. Anyhow which of these containers is cheapest for the coffee company to buy? Which container takes the least amount of energy to manufacture? Which container uses the least amount of scarce materials like tin? Which container can be recycled? Which container is happy in a landfill? Happy containers rust out in a few years. Unhappy containers last for millennia.
Most of us would like to do the right thing by the environment, if we knew what the right thing was.
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