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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 10-Dec-2021 21:57:12 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   @Alexandre Oliva I first saw wodden disposable cutlery when we moved back to Sweden in 2013. Now it's smowly gaining ground here in HK. Mostly in hipster places for now, but it's a start.
   
   Plastic straws are on their way out and no longer opt-out, they're opt-in. Some tea cups have cardboard lids rather than plastic. Some places have cellulose straws.
   
   Plastic is thinner, lighter cheaper. When you switch to wood and cardboard you lose a couple of cents on your razor-thin fast-food profit margin unless everyone in the industry is doing it. The only way to tip the balance is legislation.
   1. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Dec-2021 22:46:16 EST Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

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      oh, none of it was wooden. cups and plates felt like paper, cutlery felt more like plastic. I was told that's what googlers used every day there. maybe it is more expensive, after all, but you'd think at-scale it could be made competitive against single-use plastic, more so as societies' grow environmental awareness
      
      AFAIK plastic straws have been banned all over Brazil; plastic bags are still often offered at supermarkets, but they're biodegradable now. much of the pandemics-induced delivery has switched back to paper bags like ones I recall seeing at supermarkets when I was a child. but I'm still amazed at the amount of waste from delivery meals. I wish much of that could at least be recycled, but we're told food containers are not suited for recycling :-(