While I think that reader Claudia Jackson’s recent letter may have overlooked cultural and/or safety considerations when pouring beverages into plastic cups (something that I would like to hear about from the owner of the theater she visited), I think that her attitude was, otherwise, appropriate. We have plastic pushed at us from all directions and it is accumulating everywhere on the planet.
I am given plastic bags at stores even after saying that I do not want one. We return to the waiter the beverage straws that we did not ask for. During the pandemic, we accumulated a large inventory of plastic tableware that has remained around our house unused since it arrived with takeaway food. Perhaps restaurants assumed that we were going on a Friday night picnic.
