If plastic is worse than paper, and a paper cup has a plastic lining, where the total mass of plastic in the paper cup is less than a wholly plastic cup, this s

If plastic is worse than paper, and a paper cup has a plastic lining, where the total mass of plastic in the paper cup is less than a wholly plastic cup, this still seems a win. There seems a risk that articles like this that equate plastic to plastic-coated-paper will lead to people treating them as equal, so they may as well use the more convenient one, which seems at odds with the nominal agenda of trashing the environment less.