The chart compares the resources utilized to make one thousand single-use cups from polystyrene and paper.
Overall, the paper cups material are higher than the polystryrene cups except sream and other materials. On the other hand, polystryrene cups didn’t use wood to making products.
Firstly, paper cups takes a lot of materials to product it.Water and electricity are the highest amount of resources .Next, petroleum on paper cups has 10 times higher than polytryrene. Espically, there is a large amount of natural resources such as wood used to make it
Polytryrene cup production requires 8 kg of petroleum and 13 kg of chemicals. Steam is used commonly at 10 times of chemicals ,while water and electricity consume at least
in conclusion , paper cup production requires significants materals from natural resources than polytryrene cups
