Yes, Takeout Generates Obscene Amounts of Waste

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Yes, Takeout Generates Obscene Amounts of Waste While the oil companies might be complaining about swimming in unsold gas and oil, their plastics partners are having the time of their life because so many people are ordering in food. After my wife and kids spent Sunday canning tomatoes, they were exhausted and hungry and we ordered Chinese food, which came in 12 plastic and foam containers. I weighed them and at 6 grams of carbon for a gram of plastic, figure that the packaging had a footprint of 4.652 kg of CO2. Every time anyone does this, it's more carbon, more driving, more waste, all in the name of convenience. READ MORE Microsoft Sinks a Datacenter Off Scotland My carbon footprint from takeout dinner may be going up, but my footprint from the internet is going down. READ MORE How Shipwrecks Help Marine Predators I wonder if they will start hanging around underwater datacenters, it gives them a whole new porpoise. READ MORE Remember Peak Oil? BP Says It's Coming It's baaaack, but this time it's about demand, not supply. READ MORE New Campaign Tells Tourists How to Behave Around Elephants Oh, Behave! READ MORE Don't Let This Pandemic Ruin the Fight Against Single-Use Plastics Looking back a few months, Katherine and I both saw this plague of plastic coming. READ MORE Thanks to the Coronavirus, We Really Are Being Buried in Plastic But here we are, using more single-use packaging than ever. READ MORE You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to Treehugger newsletter. Unsubscribe © 2020 Dotdash.com — All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. A DOTDASH BRAND 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036