Are Playbills environmentally friendly? — Page 3

I'm usually liberal hippie-dippie about the environment... but paper waste issues are over-amplified. Trees for paper are farmed. It's very controlled. Paper is recyclable and biodegradable, unlike single-use plastics.We're not causing the demise of the amazon rainforest due to using paper. Most forest land is being ruined to make space for more pasture for livestock. So long as you recycle your playbills, you're fine. Use them for fire kindling or something.

Updated On: 8/19/19 at 05:47 PM

If you in fact look at the repercussions of using your laptop, and what damage the frequency of laptop usage does, in terms of the environment, you can see the additional damage such a move would make--in a way that offers no positive solutions, whereas the "waste" of paper can be surmounted by recycling.

Love that you're a "you must be trolling because your opinion varies from mine" form of accusation.

How's this for facts:

"There were over two hundred million internet searches per day in 2006 in the U.S. alone, totalling approximately two thousand tons of greenhouse gas emissions every day. Computers themselves tend to create forty to eighty grams (depending on type of computer, type of energy used, etc.) of emissions per hour throughout their electricity use. Added up, the internet usage from the U.S. counts for two percent of global CO2 emissions. All this to say that the information-technology (IT) industry plays a huge role in the future of sustainability." https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/is-your-internet-use-destroying-the-environment/

And you want to increase the amount of internet use by removing Playbills and having people look up online the info they provide, while paper products are completely reusable and don't pose a threat to the environment (because trees for paper manufacture are farmed, as another commenter explained above) whereas the damage of internet usage can't be rectified in the same way. You'd be replacing a less serious threat with a more serious one.

I love paper Playbills and would hate if Broadway went completely digital. It's part of the Broadway experience to receive a physical, paper Playbill.

We all want to be more friendly to our environment, but we do not have to give up every single little thing that could be viewed as wasteful. Being more mindful of what you use is definitely appropriate and necessary, and therefore if you don't think you'll keep your Playbill then I say don't accept one from the usher.

Mine are all on eBay now. Upcycling!