Looking to see if you know of any restaurants doing anything interesting for reducing takeout plastic waste.
Deposit for using Pyrex? Discount for byo? Etc

  • Interstellar_1@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    Plastic straws are completely gone from all establishments where I live. The last one to do was Tim Horton’s, which happened in the last couple years.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      ELI5, if plastic and paper are both recyclable and both not ideal for the environment, why is one better than the other?

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Neither will be recycled, but one comes from a renewable resource, and the other from non-renewable. Also, paper biodegrades while plastic doe not

      • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        7 months ago

        It’s like bread dough and bread. Reshaping bread dough is easy. The same process doesn’t work for bread, but you can grind it into crumbs and make other foods with it. You probably won’t be able to make the same kind of bread, but you can use it for thickening sauces or deep frying things and it is a form of recycling. Trying to then recycle the next food is much harder.

    • anguo@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      They replaced them with paper straws coated in PFAS, as far as I know.