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Compostable dishes vs washing dishes (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net to c/zerowaste@slrpnk.net

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Many cafés and fast food places these days provide disposable dishes and cutlery when you're eating in. This used to infuriate me, but it seems to be improving slightly now as the trend has moved towards using compostable dishes instead of plastic ones.

However, it's still waste. It makes me wonder, what is more costly in the long run? Providing customers with compostable items or running hot dishwashers and using soap and water all day to reuse dishes?

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[–] SunlitSorceress@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

banana leaves

[–] RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This raises a question around the environmental impact of shipping banana leaves to places where they don't naturally occur and whether they'd last that long. although perhaps it would be a by-product of the process that already brings bananas to almost every store on earth.

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

cabbage leaves

[–] babaleshy@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Dunno about banana leaves but at least you can eat cabbage leaves!