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Recycle FAIL

December 7th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

If you can’t see that, it reads “This label will biodegrade over time, but this container will not. Next time please consider china and reusable service ware when dining with us.”

A few things about this.

  1. I never asked for this container. The person working gave it to me. I wasn’t aware of options.
  2. When I asked a cashier about it she said I could get dining plates and leave them in my kitchen area.
  3. I don’t have a kitchen area at my job. It was ripped out and my “kitchen” is in the mail room.
  4. China? in a cafeteria? seriously?
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    • http://www.onedamnthing.com Danielle

      How about this: “Thank you for patronizing our patronizing cafeteria.”

    • http://www.marginaldesigns.com Marginal Designs

      That seems like some sort of awesome guerrilla art, but since the cashier was aware of it, it just seems kind of passive aggressive…

    • http://douglasderda.com douglas

      haha I’m still amazed that they continue to use those containers. We’ll have to wait and see what happens when Jennie moves to this campus in a few months.

    • BrieCS

      That’s really weird.

      My work cafe carries china for eat-in people, and also carries recyclable containers for eat-out but only for cold foods. For hot foods, they insist on styrofoam, and I hate it. I’m trying to get them to switch to something – anything – different.

      There should always be a verbal or written notice when ordering food to let you know that recyclable materials are available, but china is not an option for carry out.

    • http://douglasderda.com douglas

      Funny thing is that we used to have plastic containers that were because of recycling but one day they went to Styrofoam and now these messages appear. Some days I look at decisions management makes in businesses and wonder wtf out loud.