According to Clean Air Council, Americans throw out enough paper bags and plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times!
Check out TakeOutWithOut (TOWO).
Founder K.B. Lee founded TOWO to convince restaurants to encourage customers to bring their own containers when buying take out and to ask customers to cut back on unnecessary packaging.
They say, “Fill your stomach. Not the Landfill.”
I LOVE this!
Here’s a bit of info from their website:
ReFuse Unnecessary Stuff
When taking out, refuse the unnecessary packaging! Think about the spoons, forks, straws, and napkins that you get served (why do they give you enough for a family of 20 when eating alone?). Ask yourself before accepting all these items, “Do I really need all of this?”, “Am I going to be eating this right away?” (If so, why take the bag or the napkins)… just enjoy your muffin – and be neat so the napkin isn’t needed!
ReTake Your Own Reusables
Bring your own reusables (BYOR) and you won’t need to use the can – garbage, that is. You can bring your own containers, straws, cutlery, mugs, bottles, and even your own bag – It’s so easy to find and use!
ReConsider Your Habits
It’s easy to fall into a routine, so why not choose to create a new one? Reconsider and readjust your habits and adopt healthier eating strategies – it might be challenging at first – but it will save you time, money, your health, and our world. The bonus? You’ll feel like an eco-hero and will inspire others around you to follow suit.
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This is a very simple thing yet it seems very hard to get people to implement.
At my office there are styrofoam cups available and I see the same people every day grab a new styrofoam cup everytime they get water or coffee. This is unbelievable to me. Do they just not care? Are they that lazy that they can’t bring a mug or glass into work and leave it at their desk? Who knows. But with some people you have to tell them to do something – they can’t be expected to do it on their own. I wish my office would stop providing styrofoam cups.
This is a great topic to post about. I hope more restaurants can get their customers to reuse. This will save quite a bit of unnecessary waste.
I would love to see what the world would be like if everyone on this planet was on the same page in regards to this articles topic, saving and recycling as well as being less wasteful.