Corporate Green

One of the great things about working in New York, specifically at a company like MTV (Viacom) is that they are constantly aware of their impact in the world, and working to fix it.

Recently MTV updated their "cafeteria" if you will, giving, more "green" options. One of the biggest changes is the addition of GreenWare cups. See them here.

Finally! "Plastic" I don’t mind using. Having used them, they really seem just like normal plastic cups. People wouldn’t have noticed if the company hadn’t mentioned anything.

I think that more and more there are options out there available to us to use. Too often we can convince ourselves that there isn’t anything that we can do. Having a party, and don’t want broken dishes, plastic or paper cups. Now, finally there are friendlier options for our normal use!

Personally I hope to see these cups more widespread. Good for the farming economy, good for the environment, good for consumers. Win/win.

Personally, my first target: Starbucks. Their frappacino cups could certainly use a makeover.

Feel free to express this yourself to THEM or anyone else for that matter! You may not think that the cups you use as making that much of a difference, but knowing that one letter is sometimes all it takes to tip corporate policy shows how profound an impact we can make.