What do you Think about Excess Food Packaging?


Following the lead of San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica, more and more municipalities are considering mandating that takeout food packaging be made from recyclable or compostable materials, which diverts packaging from landfills and encourages the use of material that degrade in the marine environment, like paperboard. Currently, unrecyclable takeout food packaging like foamed polystyrene are the second largest component of litter, and are a large component of marine debris.  How do you feel about food packaging ordinances? Do you have questions for CAW employees? This forum is your place to discuss these issues.

 


Re: Fast Food Litter

The number one component of marine debris--as measured by beach cleanup studies--are cigarrette butts, which are themselves a kind of toxic plastic trash. The City of Oakland requires fast food restaurants to pay a litter clean up tax. Had not thought about a CRV-style deposit, though getting recycling bins in store and getting problem materials out should be step #1.