We spend a lot of time thinking about packaging.

The reason we find it to be so important is because we’re on a mission to replace the bad stuff in our industry – mainly petroleum-based plastics and expanded polystyrene foam. With takeout on the rise, the restaurant industry generates tons of single-use packaging. This amounts to enormous amounts of hard-to-recycle waste, which often goes straight from your takeout bag to the landfill. Yikes. 

A new study conducted by Greenpeace found that the rate of plastics recycling has fallen to a new low of just 5%. Here are a few of the reasons why:

If it's not recycled, petroleum-based plastic will never fully disappear or decompose. It just breaks down from plastic into smaller microplastics which are more harmful as they spread further and easier. All of these tiny particles, which are made from petroleum and other chemicals, end up in our environment, our water, our food chain, and in our bodies.