How to stylishly self-destruct without mixing the environment into it

Bring your own glass, dammit.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but our newly adopted social drinking habits are generating too much plastic trash for absolutely no reason.

Walk around any neighborhood in New York and you’ll see the byproduct of restaurant industry’s lifeboat — drinks to go — everywhere. Single use plastic cups, lids and straws overflow trash cans around the city, congregate in the darker corners of the streets and around park benches, signaling that the idea of “don’t shit where you eat” hasn’t fully taken hold with our society just yet.

Realistically, we’re a dozen huge plastic garbage ocean islands away from glass drinkware everywhere times, so I decided to put a list of a few better, well-designed options .

For me, there’s zero aesthetic pleasure in drinking alcohol from a plastic cup. You don’t have to agree with that completely, but paying $10+ for cocktails or wine and drinking it from plastic cups kind of cheapens the experience. If you’re into it, fine. The problem is that majority of people don’t seem to recycle plastic cups they drink from, adding plastic nightmare to the global disaster we’re living through right now. If you’re paying so much for a to go experience you might as well do it in style and don’t destroy the environment.

To put it in words some will understand and get motivated by: if wonderful Jason Polan was still with us sketching New Yorkers from all over the place, you’d want to be immortalized holding something more thoughtful than a clear plastic cup.

~ also ~ 4th of July sale almost everywhere ~ do it now ~ grab while you can ~ shop small and shop local ~ I’ve looked through A LOT of options ~ it took me 2 months of testing to pick a lunch box and it was perfect ~ don’t hide your personality, let your freak flag fly on the to go cup ~ ziplock bag will prevent spillage in your bag ~ thanks for coming to my TED talk!

Let’s see what we got.

Winner right out of the gate, this Porter to go glass is p e r f e c t + currently on sale for $20. Boy it makes that expensive glass of wine or cocktail to go taste better, I’m already feeling it.

You’ll probably spot me drinking from W&P’s Porter terrazzo cup, with the only problem here being which color to pick. Also available in single-color and bigger capacity. Swap for coffee/tea if that’s what your body needs, no judgement whatsoever.

For a little bit more intense terrazzo action or color combinations, these beauties from Poketo x Corkcicle collab are also available.

If you’re heading to a sitdown BYOB affair and don’t care if the glass has a lid or not, Liv Acrylic Drink Glass from Crate and Barrel holds “generous 15 ounces” + is available as a highball. And it’s $3.95. Come on. Zip zip.

Would you like everyone to stare at you while you drink your cool craft IPAsoursaison beer? Do you like objects that vaguely remind… spaceships? Then this HAY pint travel cup is for you + more colors and sizes but without discount at MoMA Design Store.

This Vino2Go 10 oz Wine Glass Tumbler is ridiculous just like everything going on around us and that’s why I like it. Plus, everyone looks happy using it in product photos and who doesn’t trust stock photography, amirite? Buying a pack of two is cheaper (and a caring thing to do).

P.S. wtf is tritan?I have no idea.

The basic, no frills and on sale 24oz acrylic tumbler makes paying $7.96 for it once and not going through 3–4 plastic cups is worth it even if’s not the most well-designed option. Big outdoor dining/drinking sale going on with this gorgeous set on sale.

Anything and everything can be a Moscow mule in these mugs from REI or Patagonia, the only barrier being is deciding on your activist brand of choice (you don’t have to, get both) or how much of a statement should your alcohol vessel make.

Remember baby Yoda? Yes, it’s time to rewatch that baby Yoda YouTube compilation for the 100th time to calm down the nerves and buy this tumbler so we don’t destroy nature, thanks!

Bonus feature: Go nuts with this Baby Yoda glittered 20 oz tumbler because I have a feeling that’s exactly what we all secretly need.