I could have titled this as just waste created by living daily, but wanted to focus it down a little more. I feel kind of like im the crazy one that sees this insane waste when eating at restaurants, wrappers, cups, drink carriers going right in the trash, billions per day. Its insanity if you think about it.
I’ve at least been never using cup lids or straws and never taking drink carriers when theyre offered (what a massive waste of cardboard!). Then most of the waste is at least paper from the bag and wrapper. Still not great. And yes, I know the solution would be “cook at home!” But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing, and sometimes it’s just nice to eat somewhere else.
I wonder if this is just something you notice as you get older. Then again older peiple probably waste the most, but I’m just guessing.
Funny enough,you produce far more waste and environmental impact if you cook alone or for a small household.
From an environmental perspective a communal cafeteria with set times is actually king.
Do you have a source on that, I know a saw a source a while ago showing that meal delivery service generate less waste due to less food waste than grocery stores have. But in my experience reastaurants have a ton of food waste
I feel like using that statistic is misleading in terms of efficiency just from the factor of “gallons of gas per pound of food transported”.
Sure there’s spoilage from product going bad, but marginal efficiency gains there are so far down the list of things to worry about that they’re not really worth going into. The reason people don’t have food isn’t because enough isn’t produced, it’s because they’re not allowed to have it because they don’t have enough money. Less food spoiling doesn’t fix that problem.