There really needs to be a ban on single use eating utensils and most single use plastic food packaging. It would require a tiny bit of planning ahead, such as

There really needs to be a ban on single use eating utensils and most single use plastic food packaging. It would require a tiny bit of planning ahead, such as people would need to carry around a fork, knife, metal straw, and perhaps a cup or coffee mug. Considering how minimal the cost of forks and spoons are, eateries could simply sell metal forks and spoons to people who forget them. An easy way to implement this is a tax / user fee on single use plastics for mitigating waste that ends up in shorelines or in the ocean, and make the fee enough to actually mitigate it + set the fee so that reusable metal or wood cutlery is price competitive.