This 3,600-year-old cup was designed to hold wine and be thrown away after a single use at a feast, experts believe
Thousands of the vessels, designed to contain wine, have been discovered in archeological sites on the island, and experts believe the cups were designed to be used just once and then cast aside after feasts.
Thousands of the cups, designed to contain wine, have been discovered in archeological sites on Crete."People were getting together in large groups and much like today, nobody wants to do the washing-up," Farley added. "People may be very surprised to know that disposable, single-use cups are not the invention of our modern consumerist society, but in fact can be traced back thousands of years," Farley said in a statement.
Packaging is filling up landfills and polluting our oceans, where materials like plastic and polystyrene can take centuries to decompose."With ceramics being a higher status material to us now, it seems strange to throw them away after just one use. But like plastic today, clay was readily available, cheap to acquire, easy to mold. But also like plastic, clay stays in the ground for many, many years," she added.
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