自1970年代以来，一次性塑料杯一直是后院烧烤，众议院派对，大学后挡板和许多其他休闲聚会场所，但是随着制造商和客户继续推动其单一使用商品的更环保替代品，非生物降解和经常不可回收的杯子可能面临着他们最重要的时间。
世界上的红色独奏杯的预兆？“无限可回收铝杯”球。该制造商宣布计划从9月到明年，通过“美国的主要场所和特许经营者”首次亮相其新杯赛。飞行员计划还推出了“坚固，耐用和凉爽的触摸”杯子，目的是在2020年之后扩展到餐馆和商店等空间，尽管目前，Ball的重点似乎是在对新产品的反应上进行分量。
While there’ll be an inevitable adjustment period for some consumers who just like the familiar thing and don’t wish to start using the unfamiliar thing instead, a continuously recyclable cup seems like as strong a step as any to walking back some of the massive environmental damage done by non-recyclable plastics and other compounds over the last 50 years or so.
And sure, aluminum isn’t a cure-all out of hand for waste issues (most cans take around 80-200 years to decompose in a landfill), but Ball’s efforts still constitute a decent enough step toward easing back our collective dependence on plastic waste. Now it’s just a matter of convincing people to actually throw their aluminum cups in the recycling bin when they’re finished.