Avoid Disposable Dining Ware

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Get rid of single-use plastic / styrofoam cups, plates, cutlery, boxes... Replace them with reusable as much as possible.

Upstream, in priority order:

  • Preferably, use reusable dining ware and put in place the necessary cleaning process
  • If reusable is not an option, if you use a food waste digester, consider using compostable dining ware suitable for it
  • Otherwise, use disposable ware with first lower carbon footprint and then from sustainable sources

Downstream:

  • Recycle if possible (wash before to avoid contamination with food waste)

extra 1.3 million kg

of plastic waste was generated during the two-month circuit breaker against COVID-19 in 2020, due to theincreased demand for takeaway and delivery of meals. It is equivalent to the weight of 92 double-decker buses, without counting the disposable masks and PPE used.
(cgs)

32%

of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced annually is left to flow into oceans. It equals pouring one garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute.
(World Economic Forum)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

To understand the difference between biodegradable and compostable, read this article on Ocean Watch