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Compostable dishes vs washing dishes (slrpnk.net)
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Many cafés and fast food places these days provide disposable dishes and cutlery when you're eating in. This used to infuriate me, but it seems to be improving slightly now as the trend has moved towards using compostable dishes instead of plastic ones.

However, it's still waste. It makes me wonder, what is more costly in the long run? Providing customers with compostable items or running hot dishwashers and using soap and water all day to reuse dishes?

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Buy cheap shit, get cheap quality. It's always been that way.