I got some prepared meals from Verrill Farm yesterday and noticed they seem
to have switched from plastic to some sort of cardboard material for their
takeout containers. Still had plastic tops, and plastic containers for
soups, but it's an improvement.

I also get meals from happy-jars.com, and they use returnable glass jars.

Leslie Turek

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM Alice Waugh <[email protected]> wrote:

> These are very valid points, but I think there's a much bigger plastics
> problem with takeout containers. The translucent cylindrical soup
> containers and the black trays with clear lids are piling up in everyone's
> kitchen. I understand that black plastic can't be recycled at all, but I'm
> unclear (no pun intended) about the soup containers. We save all of them
> for leftovers but we have only so much space in the cabinet. Does anyone
> know of any place that will take these containers for some other use?
>
> Also, is there any sentiment among environmentalists for pressuring
> restaurants to go back to the aluminum trays with cardboard lids? I don't
> think there's a viable non-plastic alternative for liquids but it would be
> great if we could revert to the old-fashioned containers for the solids.
> And yes, I know, the real answer is that we should just not do
> pickup/takeout at all, but especially in the Covid era, I don't think
> that's realistic for most people.
>
> Alice Waugh
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