eschew the mittsfibs
I’ve pretty much stopped drinking my coffee from paper cups by hauling into Hard Drive and Pearl Street Bagels one of those stainless steel freebie belogo’d to-go mugs that roll around the floor of my car.
Were you shocked to learn that Americans trash 2.5 million plastic water bottles per hour?
Here’s a similar shocker: Starbucks alone goes through 1.9 billion paper cups per year. That’s 78,000 trees.
But I’m not here to bully. I’ll settle for a compromise. Every to-go coffee purchase also comes with what I call the “mittsfib” or MTSFIB — the McDonald’s Tort Sissy-Finger Insulator Belt. No doubt corporate lawyers came up with this ever since some poor old lady famously sued McDonald’s because her to-go coffee was apparently quite hot.
Go ahead. Use’n'toss the paper cup. But at least be tough enough to say “hold the mittsfib.”
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March 16th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
It’s the simple things we can do… take a moment to say no thanks to it and restack it in the holder so that it doesn’t still just end up in the trash and skip the lid if you don’t need it. they aren’t made from recyclable plastics.
good little piece!