We have image the futurity , and it ’s a giant pile of dirty paper plates , accompanied by a single saved spork .
Like a lot of California city , Fort Bragg is hurting for water , so it ’s rounding up the usual suspects of drought — cut down on lawn care , ignoring the pools , and also one somewhat unusual one . Viathe SF Gate :
eating place and hotels must use disposable scale , cups and flatware , serve customers water only when involve , and drastically contract back on the laundering of tablecloths , napkins , sheets and towel .
Setting aside issues of increased landfill utilisation and the energy used to transport all those extra supplies , there ’s another problem : paper scale , plastic utensils , and disposable cups all take a lot of water to make . Even a individual sheet of paper takes just over2.5 gallons of waterto grow . To be clear , what Fort Bragg is doing is n’t “ maintain ” urine — it ’s just off - load its water gist somewhere else . And , with drouth spreading all over the world , that ’s not a scheme that ’s going to work long for anyone .
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