Can a Cooking Mat Help Save the Earth?

Can a Cooking Mat Help Save the Earth?
Here in our research kitchens we have made up our minds to do our part to save the world. This may sound corny or even dumb, but it is not. We are dedicated to making the world a better place. For us, this starts in the kitchen.
Baking does not have to a wasteful thing. It can be thrifty and ‘green’ without making food bland, dull, or expensive to make. Actually, the OPPOSITE is the case. By using the proper things in your cooking, you can cut your costs while cutting down on the amount of trash and waste you create by your everyday baking.
We have already discovered very many ways to save cash and reduce trash already by using a silicone cooking mat, but now another cost savings we get from cooking with a reusable mat compared to parchment or foil is the saving to the environment and world.
The expense of foil or parchment paper that is used only once and then thrown away is 9 times the cost on one silicone mat you can use over two thousand. Let me restate that using hard number. A baking mat can be bought and delivered to your kitchen for less than $20. The amount of foil you would have to buy to duplicate that one mat’s usefulness is 180 to 400 dollars. The exact cost will depend on which grade or brand of foil or parchment paper you use. But, even the cheapest roll of foil you can buy is still NINE times as expensive to use compared to one mat; Nine times.
The bonus benefit to our planet is that you use less materials that will land in landfills or that needs to be recycled to be sold again. So, using a mat is simply ‘greener’ than using single use products. That feature alone makes using a mat a no brainer as one mat can take the place of forty eight rolls of stuff that you would just be throwing away. Crumpled up, that is several trash bags full of garbage.
The energy saving from having to NOT carry that garbage to a landfill or to me it down and reforge it saves a lot of electricity also. Aluminum is not an easy thing to reprocess at all. Also, before foil can be recycled it has to be scrubbed. Soaking a silicone cooking mat in hot water and dish soap is the better alternative compared to the industrial process used to clean materials.
So, get a reusable mat and help save the Earth. Do all you can to save the planet one meal at a time!