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Plastic or Paper Cups?

What is better for our environment, use of polystyrene cups, or paper cups? Polystyrene. It takes twenty-four times more power to produce a paper cup. Furthermore, when a paper cup decomposes in a moist landfill (in dry soil, it doesn’t decompose any faster than plastic) it produces methane gas, a threat to add to the greenhouse effect.

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