Over the course of the academic year I have been accumulating a unique collection. In the campus dining halls, students can rent out to-go containers in case they need to eat on the go. These containers often come with a set of disposable utensils, which makes sense for students who don't have utensils with them (and don't steal them from the dining hall). The reality is that most of the students take the containers back to their rooms to eat, where they likely have their own silverware to eat with. So the question is, what happens to all of those utensil sets that go unused?
Since August of 2011, I have collected 91 of these plastic utensil sets. I never needed to use a single one of them, but I didn't want to just throw them out because that seemed wasteful. I plan on returning them to the dining hall so they can be used in the future. The dining facilities can service around 20,000 students and must give away a fair amount of these plastic ware sets. If every student took out a container just once a week, that's 580,000 sets of plastic ware distributed in a school year. That's a lot of plastic.
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| Ready to be returned to the dining hall |
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