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"Getting restaurant meals to go often comes with a side of guilt: “Did I need
to supersize? I should have saved the money and cooked at home.” And the final
sting, perhaps muttered while hovering over the trash and recycling bins
deciding where to toss the empty boxes: “Oh, the waste.”
Dietary and budgeting concerns notwithstanding, one way to mitigate the
environmental impact (or the eco-guilt) of a takeout habit is to choose
restaurants that serve their food in more sustainable containers.
“I’m a firm believer in ‘every little bit counts’,” said Sarah Currie-Halpern,
co-founder of waste reduction consultancy Think Zero. “There’s 8 billion people
on this planet. If even a couple million are doing something more sustainable,
that’s a notch forward in the right direction.”
Of course, it’s never as easy as it seems. “One material may be worse from a
greenhouse gas point of view and another material may be worse from a water-use
point of view,” said Elaine Blatt, a senior analyst at the Oregon department of
environmental quality (DEQ). “The bottom line is that we use too much of this
stuff generally. That’s all we can say with any certainty.”
But there is some information you can use to make a delivery decision you can
feel good about. Or, at least, less bad about. Here’s our (mostly) scientific
ranking, from best to worst."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
