A Green Rant

I have an issue with the amount of trash generated by a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant or any fast food place for that matter. I'll focus on BWW for this blog. BWW has a decent sit down/belly up sports bar atmosphere but then serve everything in disposable paper trays and plastic flatware. I assume they then tossed into the trash. I wonder how many tons of trash per year this adds to area landfills? I'm sure this keeps their overhead low by not having to pay dishwashers and replace broken or worn out dishes & glasses but at what cost to the environment? Wouldn't it make more "green" sense to use real flatware and reusable plastic containers? Maybe they do recycle these containers. Maybe the water it takes to wash dishes would be just as costly & harmful to the planet? I just know we all have to do our part to "think green" these days. Remember the days when burgers came in thin paper wrappers? Now they're served in cardboard boxes. Perhaps this is a business opportunity or area of innovation waiting to be explored. Fast food trash reduction.

Possibly using large type food items to hold loose food. Like a fried potato "bowl" with chicken wings inside of it. Eat the wings and the bowl = no trash to toss out. OR serve your dine-in customers on a plate that can be washed? It doesn't have to be fancy. Just durable and washable. Currently Subway, McDonald's, Arby's, Carl's Jr, Hardee's, Wendy's, etc wrap their sandwiches and fries in some type of paper product and either put the meal on a tray with another sheet of paper or into a bag with napkins. Wouldn't it be great if there were an edible or reusable alternative? We could save more trees and reduce trash sent to landfills.