[mrspeaker]

It is so hard to buy lunch in NYC without ending up with a frightening amount of plastic (and paper) waste.

There is a start-up-esque thing called Eatsa that is sort of an "automated take-out" place: I go there a lot - not because the food is mind-blowing or I hate interacting with people, but because I can just take the cardboard bowl of food (with a thin plastic top: not good, but "least bad") and not be forced to have a plastic bag, 50 napkins, tonnes of plastic cutlery (fast-moving lines means it's hard to opt-out).

There was a couple of cafes in Australia that were doing "waste-free" (maybe it was http://lupiicafe.com/ ) operations - I hope that this catches on, because I feel like an asshat every time I throw an industrial-strength plastic food container in the bin.