[bitsinthesky]

This is one area i believe laws are needed to warp the market. If it costs $0.50 more to make a compostable container, you can bet most companies will buy the cheap plastic.

I’m shocked at the single use waste that can be found in the restaurant industry. One of my favorite places used plastic for everything: cutlery, plates, cups. Their trash bins would be filled every day, and for what? To save a few cents? I feel customer facing plastics should all be compostable as a first step, if also for its social awareness impact.

What’s the best way to develop good policy? Pin point a few industries with maximum benefit/minimum cost to legislate for and expand from there? Or write a more holistic law that the entire population could then collectively weasel around, but it would be “fair” and “make sense”?

[AstralStorm]

They almost all are compostable these days, even sometimes wooden or paper. But the composting is irrelevant when the volume is enough to overwhelm the best compost heaps.

Reuse trumps recycling trumps biodegradability. But it apparently costs too much to wash normal metal utensils...

[bdcravens]

To be honest I feel like "compostable" is the next version of the little recycling symbols on plastic containers: technically true, but mostly impractical to the point of being pointless, but a way of kicking the can of true progress down the road.