Goodbye styrofoam clamshell containers.

[hlthe2b]

6. While I agree with you on the reusables, there is understandable and intense resistance...

among the public (who don't want to have to remember to carry containers with them, among health officials (contamination/food-borne outbreaks), and the retailers/stores themselves--who want "sterile," quick, and uniform--not to mention the easy bar-coded pricing of items they don't have to weigh, nor adjust for the weight of the holding container.

I can't entirely agree with them of course--given I have long used my own containers to buy products in bulk where still available (coop health food stores) and occasionally even the rare Whole Foods where they occasionally still allow it and I prefer my own travel mug(s)... But, I have had annoyed people in coffee shops behind me muttering when I hand it to the employee--who apparently think they are being inconvenienced. I don't know how we can convince all to "go back" to a time when that was routine and accepted. But, I am so over all this plastic.