Have you ordered takeout from a restaurant or grocery store lately? On a recent visit to Greenbrae’s Mollie Stone’s Market, I grabbed a bowl of lentil-vegetable soup for lunch. After checking out, my search for a spoon led me to a Preserve cutlery dispenser. I pushed a lever and out popped a sanitary, single-use, post-consumer number 5 100% recycled plastic spoon. Although Marin’s waste haulers do not accept number 5 plastics, the product is, theoretically, endlessly recyclable. Place it in plastics recycling, and companies like Preserve infinitely recycle it. (More on plastic reuse in this story.)
