Without reading anything but the title - yes. I actively avoid going to restaurants that use single use plates and the like. I also take containers with me and encourage others to do so rather than using single use takeout containers for leftovers. I also am not keen on doing takeout.
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My issue with eating out is more the cost than the waste. Both are ridiculous though.
It's unfortunately a cost thing.
If you want to avoid the single use waste, you have to patronise more expensive restaurants
In my experience it's fast food or fast food adjacent places that are the worst for disposable items. The more expensive the meal, the only things going in the bin are any leftovers.
It really shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Anyone who can afford a Michelin Star dinner, isn't going to want to take home the napkins or silverware.
Those of us who can afford Taco Bell, stock up on sporks.
To me the part that seems the most wasteful is wasting the time of badly paid workers when you could just prepare food for yourself instead, and to a lesser extent the waste of your money going to a corporation, and the waste of real estate. I don't think things like water use and extra plastic/cardboard trash associated with food is all that impactful or worth worrying about. That said I personally avoid going out to eat except in the rare cases when it is an unavoidable social requirement, so a few times a year at most.
So is breathing wasteful since you’re turning o2 into co2 exacerbating the green house issue?
Yep, I hate it too. At least the places I eat at (by myself, not with my wife) barely give you a napkin, you just get the meal and accompanying grease, but still.
no
If you mean the waste of the lives of vulnerable individuals, yes, this bothers me tremendously to the point where it's sometimes difficult to function. I have trouble getting worked up about plastic cups next to actual atrocity against intelligent creatures.
kind of disgusted at the waste created by going out to eat?
I'm kinda annoyed they want me to segregate it into three different trashcans
Rich ppl prob create that much waste casually just eating at home idrc about what working class ppl do