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Single-use plastic cutlery should be a paid item, not a tick box. This would greatly discourage customers from requesting cutlery just because it's free.
by prima-facie 3y ago
Single-use plastic cutlery should be a paid item, not a tick box. This would greatly discourage customers from requesting cutlery just because it's free.
- boringg 3y ago100% - just like plastic bags. Either way we are all paying for the cost as that is spread into the price for everyones food.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhen restaurant apps here make it paid, workers put them in anyway because it’s not worth upset customers who can’t eat without them and forgot to ask
- kjkjadksj 3y agoDoesn’t really work. Plastic bags are paid in CA and they are still littered all over the place. Most clerks don’t even charge you the ten cents or whatever. If you want them gone you make them illegal and force biodegradable options that are more expensive to now be the only option on the marketplace.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAnytime a tax does not sufficiently reduce the action it is supposed to reduce, it just means the tax is too low.
- some_random 3y agoDoesn't change the fact clerks don't always bother to add the tax. Hell, I suspect increasing the tax would make them add it even less
- lotsofpulp 3y agoYou can move the tax up to more auditable levels, like manufacturers or importers.
- ilyt 3y agoBad comparison. You pick up bag because you don't have anything else to carry it. You pick cutlery only if you explicitly don't have it (like eating in car or sth). Normal cutlery is far more convenient than the plastic garbage so you rarely need it when ordering food to apartment. With exception being chopsticks but those are wood not plastic anyway.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 3y agoNever underestimate mankind's capacity for laziness. I've met a fair number of people who use paper plates, plastic cups, and plastic cutlery exclusively at their homes just to avoid washing dishes.
- ethbr1 3y agoMy partner and I actually had an argument over this. We were having some difficulty getting to a dish cleaning consensus, and her solution was "Fine. We'll just use paper plates." To her, that was a solution. To me, it was insanity.
- throwaway290 3y agoThen throw in disposable wooden cutlery. Plastic should not be free.