Restaurants. These places are a minefield for plastic. Waitresses are always trying to give you plastic. Want a drink of refreshing water? Why not suck it through a tube of molded toxic plant fossils? Want a sammich? How about we decorate that for you with some garbage. Time for your bill? We'll give you some candies - each individually wrapped in a carcinogenic package laden with gender bending chemicals that will happily gum up the eco-system for the next 500-1000 years so that you can rest assured that your treat is sterile.
Since all these things are given so routinely even a waitress who is aware of our project will sometimes give us something without even realizing it. Because of food-safety issues, once it's placed on our table it's consumed. We need to get our waitress (we haven't had a single waiter since the project started) watching out for us and then be sure to make sure none of our orders come with consumable plastic. It's really easy for a waitress to forget about the container the dipping sauce comes in or something like that. So far everyone has been really good.
We picked up a straw for our Box o' Shame at Milestone's the other day due to some excessively good service - our waitress brought us water before we had hardly sat down never mind had a chance to warn her. Other than that and a trip to Harold's where our own lack of vigilance was to blame we've done pretty well. Sometimes our friends even join in in eschewing unnecessary waste. This makes me feel a bit less like an weirdo and a little more hopeful that our 'no plastic' culture could become mainstream.
-Miles
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