Your Environmentally Friendly Lunch Bowl Is Actually Full of Non-Biodegradable Chemicals

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Your Environmentally Friendly Lunch Bowl Is Actually Full of Non-Biodegradable Chemicals
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Just put the salad in my hands, sir

The environmentally friendly promise of bowl food is a lie

You know those beige, plant-based, molded fiber bowls that, in a few short years, have become ubiquitous among the fast-casual set for being supposedly compostable? Turns out they areIn testing molded fiber bowl samples from multiple restaurants — including fast-casual favorites that tout their environmental consciousness — across New York City, the New Food Economy discovered that all samples tested contained high levels of fluorine, which indicates treatment with per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

Molded fiber bowls were hailed as the solution to the huge amounts of waste that takeout generates, but the New Food Economy points out that “in the rush, few noticed that they came with a hearty side of unintended consequences” — including environmental impacts and potential health effects that have yet to be studied comprehensively. Members of Congress have introduced

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