Restaurants are giving discounts to diners who bring their own dishes EarthDay
That’s the pitch some restaurants and food companies are giving consumers who get discounts when they bring in reusable salad bowls or glass Mason jars. The zero-waste movement has also motivated some businesses to upcycle their coffee grounds so they can be turned into hand soap, and swap plastic cocktail straws for ones made of pasta.
Other restaurants, like Ancolie, an eco-conscious eatery in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, have a more jarring approach to sustainability. The restaurant serves the majority of its menu items –– coffee, fruit, salads, grain bowls and dessert –– in glass Mason jars. Menu prices include a $2 deposit for the jars, but if eaters come back with the glass containers they get discounts on their next meal. A salad, for example, is $11.75, but the price drops to $9.
View this post on Instagram Repost from @spinachdaddy because I mean would you just look at this??🥰🍓 you make the Ancolie jar look beautiful 💕 happy Tuesday! #goglassorgohome Containers and packaging, some of which are food-related, contribute to more than 23% of trash that ends up in landfills in the U.S., the equivalent of about 39 million tons per year, according to the EPA.
Even big food brands like Nestle’s NSRGY, +0.05% Lean Cuisine are jumping on the no-waste movement. The frozen dinners brand will launch three Asian-inspired meals in transparent, reusable cups each retailing for $2.99 each next month nationwide. The zero-waste trend has also made its way into cocktails. At the newly opened Feroce restaurant inside the Moxy hotel in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, cocktails come with straws made out of hollow tubes of pasta instead of paper or plastic.
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