A normal day, you go out to get lunch. You choose take away food to eat on a bench or somewehere and what do you get? Plastic wrapping. A plastic box together with matching plastic spoon, fork and knive, that you use for about 15 minutes until you have finished lyour food. After that, the packaging ends up in a normal rubbish bin, because you do not have the time to look for a recycling bin.
This is actually unnessecary rubbish that could be easily replaced by biodegradable boxes and wrappings. This cardboard-ish invention can be thrown into bio-waste or any other rubbish bin. (Another idea would be if people could simply bring their own boxes, such as tupperware. Then the food would only be weighted and no rubbish is generated.)
This change is neither very expensive nor does it take more time or efford which makes it a perfect way for restaurants to start being eco-friendly. Customers surely would appreciate.
The first image shows the plastic wrappings we all know already. They are not reusable and need to be recycled which is annoying to lots of people. The second picture contains these new, biodegradable packages. (They do not give any nasty taste to the food inside) They can be thrown into any rubbish bin there is. (Rice up! at the Zurich main station is already using these boxes)
This is our idea on how we want to make a change.
Chiara & Tonia