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I've been thinking about this and it would be good if there was a 3rd party that provided standard sized, good quality re-usable containers to restaurants. If y
by tren 7y ago
I've been thinking about this and it would be good if there was a 3rd party that provided standard sized, good quality re-usable containers to restaurants. If you want to buy food from the restaurant you need an account with this new container company. When you buy food from a restaurant, if you don't have enough credit with the container company, the cost of a container is added to your order (something like $10 so that de-incentivises people to bin it after use). There would need to be a lot of drop off locations for used containers, if they were standard sized they could probably be washed automatically by machines to be returned to restaurants. Each container would be uniquely identifiable and your account would be credited a drop-off.
This would only work if a local government put restrictions in place banning single use plastics at restaurants. I don't think cutlery is necessary in most cases, especially for home delivery.. you can use your own cutlery people.
- toper-centage 7y agoThis sounds great, but I fear that nothing stops China from producing literal mountains of trash. Proof of that is the mountains of abandoned shared bikes.