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Any restaurants you know that are reducing plastic? (fedia.io)

submitted 6 months ago by Hello_there@fedia.io to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Looking to see if you know of any restaurants doing anything interesting for reducing takeout plastic waste.
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[–] jlow@beehaw.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm always wondering if these brown "paper" / "cardboard" packaging materials are actually plastic-free (I'm also almost certain they're since "compostable" packaging is still allowed to contain absurd (20%?) amounts in some jurisdictions). The worst thing is that most come without anything to identify them by so even if some are we'll never know!

[–] colourlessidea@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

As far as I’m aware they are not - they have a lining inside that contains plastic. At least that’s what I remember of paper coffee cups for example. But yes - where I live they are still supposed to be sorted as paper products.