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10 Ways to Eat Out Green.

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If celebrities can teach us anything, it is that being environmental is hot.

So while I love eating out, I’m bugged by how wasteful it can be. Here my top ten lazy ways to be a little more eco-friendly when dining out:

  1. Skip Styrofoam. Ask to have your take-out, delivery or leftovers wrapped in aluminum foil. When done, rinse the foil and recycle it.
  2. Ask restaurants to leave out the extras when packing your take-out or delivery. No one needs all those napkins, sporks, ketchup and soy sauce when eating at home. Tell them to pack your food and be done with it.
  3. If you end up with extra napkins, condiment packages or sporks, save them. I keep a Ziploc bag full in my cupboard for when I have a meal on the go.
  4. Use your own cup at the coffee shop, like one of those travel mugs you can keep bringing back. It sucks that a cup used for an hour wallows in the landfill for decades.
  5. When given a choice, pick soda, juice, beer and iced tea in cans or bottles over drinks in disposable cups. Recycle the bottles and cans and you’re done.
  6. Or tell them to keep the straw and lid so there’s less waste. At the bar, skip the stir stick and napkin around the drink.
  7. This requires true dedication to the cause and some forethought, but consider Tupperware as doggy-bag. Their FlatOut! containers collapse to fit discretely in your bag until you’re ready to leave the table, plus they have a lifetime guarantee.
  8. With self-serve napkins, take only what you need.
  9. Forget bottled water. Most bottled water is just purified tap water. Plus it took 1.5 million barrels of oil just to produce the bottles Americans threw away last year. And only a tiny percentage of plastic bottles are recycled.
  10. Reduce and recycle when you can. For example, when I get “stand food” like Irv’s Burgers, my order comes in a paper sack. If I can keep the sauce off the bag, I can recycle it. If I don’t need a bag, I tell them to keep it.


I’m still working to reduce my carbon footprint from a big old moon boot to a tiny little Jimmy Choo sandal, and I’m nowhere near perfect with these things. Still, I guess it’s all about our little changes adding up.

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