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

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Plastic straws are completely gone from all establishments where I live. The last one to do was Tim Horton's, which happened in the last couple years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They replaced them with paper straws coated in PFAS, as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Source on the PFAS?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here's one: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230825122044.htm I don't know about Tim Horton's specifically, just saying that you might want to just forgo straws altogether.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks!

Jesus, as if PFAS aren't prevalent enough, let's just suck them up through a tube straight into our faces!

I will be foregoing straws for sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

ELI5, if plastic and paper are both recyclable and both not ideal for the environment, why is one better than the other?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Neither will be recycled, but one comes from a renewable resource, and the other from non-renewable. Also, paper biodegrades while plastic doe not

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Mainly because plastic is not actually recyclable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It’s like bread dough and bread. Reshaping bread dough is easy. The same process doesn’t work for bread, but you can grind it into crumbs and make other foods with it. You probably won’t be able to make the same kind of bread, but you can use it for thickening sauces or deep frying things and it is a form of recycling. Trying to then recycle the next food is much harder.