This Greenpoint pilot program could be a game changer for food takeout waste in NYC

You could recycle this, but you probably don’t. Via Flickr user pinprick. One of the great things about living in the food delivery paradise that is New York City is you never have to pay for tupperware. Soggy paper boxes, crinkly aluminum dishes and the horrendous immortal waste of styrofoam are becoming less common, replaced by a constant flow of perfectly reusable plastic tubs. The downside to that is it creates lots of garbage because you can only save so many miso soup containers in your cabinet. And remember that recycling doesn’t absolve your sins: It’s where something comes from, not where it ends up, that creates the most waste. The solution to all of this would be to order in less, cook more and use less waste, but lol this is America in 2016 and there’s nothing we love more than exercising our rights to CREATE WASTE. But now, as the Brooklyn Paper reports,… Read More

This Greenpoint pilot program could be a game changer for food takeout waste in NYC : Brokelyn