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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yes, it's common in the US. I normally eat off of paper plates if I'm eating a sandwich, chips or pizza. It all depends on what you want to waste, paper or electricity, time and water.
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The wasteful comment that I made was not only about money, also about the waste made, the paper plates are disposable and non-recyclable so they go to the landfill, and they cost resources (water, electricity, trees, and a lot of chemicals) to produce.
For me there in no question that I would prefer to eat in on proper plate and put in the dishwasher, I don’t waste time because the machine washes while I do other things and I only run the machine when it is full. When the machine is loaded it can clean 42 dishes at a time and consumes 10 l of water per cycle, adding the cost of electricity and detergent it comes under a cent per plate, looking at the cost of paper plates a pack of 10 costs 1 € so ten cents each.