spoon

Posted by nicolaas on 28 September 2011 | 0 Comments

Tags: oil, local, spoon

I just saw this picture on my facebook (thank you Ben).  It is an interesting one.  I guess there are a few things that are not addressed:

1. to make the metal spoon also involved a similar trail from mine via factory to user

2. plastic spoons are made by the millions - making the individual spoon very cheap and easy to make.

3. in washing the spoon we may use half a litre of water and perhaps put some dish washing liquid into our water

Of course, it is better to reuse a spoon.  I guess the challange might come in making it easier to wash to spoon and more expensive to use a throw-away one.  If this was the case then McDonalds would start using metal reusable cutlery.  I would be very interested to see the economics of this. Has anyone ever worked this out?