Take out containers are a great way to reduce your personal waste
Using refillable or reusable containers when ordering “take out” is a great way of reducing the waste you create! Here are a couple of simple rules that I have learnt in the last while that will insure your good intentions are achieved:
1. Make sure the container you use is big enough, because if it is not … guess what they use the same old plastic ones for any overflow! And your mission of zero waste has not been achieved.
2. Remember to ask for “no napkins, chopsticks, soya sauce” or other stuff that might come with your take out order. Even if you have used a refillable container the amount of waste the other extra things generate is silly!
3. Make sure to tell the restaurant that you are coming with your refillable container, otherwise they will put it in the styrofoam or plastic and then transfer it to your refillable container (and what good is that!!). Note to self, many restaurants won’t start making your order till the refillable container gets there, so they can put your order directly into it.
I went to our local sushi restaurant recently and the server said to me (as I was handing over my refillable container), “don’t use this the sushi will look much nicer in one of our take out trays”. WHAT – are you kidding me, I made all this effort to arrive and not create waste, and now your sales pitch to me is: its going to look nicer in one of our trays! I don’t think so! I am a committed individual who will not let the art of the sushi display deter me from my plight of no waste!
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