Advantages: convient, reusable, and you don't have to wash dishes/run your dishwasher.
Disadvantages: Hurts the environment.
They make your tea taste bad The thin plastic cups split easily and spill your tea The reusable (thick plastic) ones get stained and dirty looking even after washing
the advantage of plastic is that its cheap to buy and easy to recycle the disavantages of plastic is that its made with oil and oil is running out!
Most supermarkets sell plastic cups.
One can get plastic drinking cups from most supermarkets, party supply stores and even from home and office supply stores. Walmart has clear plastic cups. The Party People has clear, yellow, red and silver plastic cups. Redds Cups has red plastic drinking cups.
The majority of plastic cups can be reused or recycled. Polystyrene, or foam, cups are not widely recyclable. Cost wise, plastic cups tend to more inexpensive than polystyrene cups.
Plastic cups are composed of organic compounds.
Advantages can become disadvantages. Sometimes the disadvantages become the advantage. So, who's to say if it was an advantage or a disadvantage?
what is the advantage & disadvantages of folk media
Difficult in pricing
Some plastic cups are recyclable, some aren't. it depends on the material.
Plastic cups come in many sizes. There is no answer.
The advantages of using plastic to make drinking cups are that most are made with safe materials, and they are cheap, convenient, lightweight, shatterproof an recyclable. The disadvantages are many are not reusable, some contain cancerous materials, many end up in landfills taking thousands of years to biodegrade, and the degrading process emits toxic chemicals into the air.