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The largest percentage of U.S. landfill waste comes from what material?
Plastics, paper products, food or yard trimmings?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, paper and paper products account for more than 23 percent of landfill waste.
And food takes up the second largest slice of the landfill pie, accounting for about 21.5 percent. The COVID pandemic changed how Americansdine outat least temporarily restaurant sales especially in large cities dropped when it came to in-person dining but they rose for takeout. That means more disposable food containers were floating around.
Republic Services, one of America's largest trash collection and recycling providers says cardboard drink carriers aluminum cans and plastic containers labeled number one or two are usually recyclable. What's not are paper napkins and towels, soiled cardboard like greasy pizza boxes, plastic utensils, bags and foam containers. That usually goes to the trash unless people compost the paper products.
There are some companies like the one you're about tosee that are working to develop alternatives to throw away food containers. DeliverZero is kind of like Grubhub, DoorDash or Uber Eats except the new company's driverstakeyour old containersawaywhen theydrop offthe new ones. This does come at an additional cost for restaurants based on the amount of takeout food they sell.
