Dishes packed in tiffins from San Rafael’s Lotuis Cuisine of India
Here’s a data point to ponder: Every day, Californians dispose of enough plastic to fill 290 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Packaging, including takeout containers for restaurant meals, occupies 50% of California landfills.
Recognizing our problem with plastic pollution, state and local governments passed a bevy of regulations aimed at slimming down the garbage pile, including SB54 which bans the production of polystyrene (a.k.a. Styrofoam) containers for takeout. Though there are always loopholes, this push to eliminate forever plastics (polystyrene never biodegrades, just breaks into tiny pieces) trickles down to restaurants who must rethink their contribution to the takeout packaging pile.
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