Re-use of Styro Cups?— A Doubt

@ZedSmart (19839)
Philippines
October 24, 2018 4:12am CST
I hope this is not true and I hope that it’s just a discrepancy of my senses perhaps. This has crossed to my minds because for how many years of buying take-out in this fast food store, I noticed not just for once but for a couple of times already including this latest purchase that something is fishy on the soft drinks styro cup. I hope that this branch wasn’t recycling their disposable cups. I now doubt with this because this not my first time to drink using styro cups and for long years, newly use cup has never that fishy smell. I think that I have to buy in their other branches so that I can differentiate. Whenever I ate on establishments similar like this, I make it sure that I tore my cup after using them. This may not be everybody’s practice so I still fall as victim if it could be true that some establishments are recycling their styro cups. This is very against the sanitary standards and it should not economize this way. Photo Credit: pixabay.com
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
Lucky styro and plastic bags had been banned in our city since 2012. Maybe it was placed near something fishy, styro foam is quick to absorb odor, I think its more expensive and time consuming to wash and reuse rather than buy a brand new set.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
@ZedSmart the brittle recyclable types.
@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
Good that there's total banned there. What the fast food stores are using for take out drinks? The cups are piled nearby the vending machine.
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@rsa101 (40976)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
I hope they don't practice that way to save money. I think that is just disgusting if they do that indeed. I think if it is proven guilty they should stop to operate their restaurant because they do not deserve to.
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@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
I really hope they don't. It's not a good way to cost cut. But I swear, there's really that smell. If it is not the cup, could it be from the vending machine and incorporate in the drinks?
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@rsa101 (40976)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
@ZedSmart It might be new cup but they are not conscious enough to keep it in a sanitize way that is why the cups smelled.
@Janet357 (75638)
24 Oct 18
Thats good to know.it takes thousands of years before plastic deteriorates. Needless to say, it makes the soil acidic.
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@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
25 Oct 18
Local government made efforts and made laws for this.
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
24 Oct 18
Surely they do not, let's say they don't and move on.
@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
25 Oct 18
I hope so because it should be a big no no. I would still order in the future and if I experience the same, I would let them smell the cups to see to it that there was really this fishy smell and what was that or where it come from.