It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home...is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you're done with it. Think about how many times a week you use disposable silverware, packaging and other items. Can you think of ways to reduce this yourself. Do you think there are ways that companies could reduce this also.