Americans go through 110 billion plastic or plastic-covered cups each year, using and discarding what the Food Packaging Institute describes as "astronomical numbers" of disposable containers.

With a sense of blame, he heard rustling, foil sighs, and a monotonous hiss from pouring wine into the glass.

He listened, reproved, to the rustle, the sigh of the foil cap and the single tut-tut it took to pour a glass.