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After my recent rant against styrofoam, many of you commented on our blog and Facebook Group or emailed us with ideas for combating that indestructible white stuff, as well as other wasteful packaging. We heard about so many good strategies that I thought we should go over some of them in the coming weeks, to learn more about them and figure out which ones we each might want to give a try. Think of them as new tools for our “Make the World Better’ tool boxes.

The strategy I want to talk about today is inspired by Tara Escudero. After she heard about my run-in with the styrofoam mountain at the Clarion Hotel breakfast buffet (link to that blog post?) Tara went above the unresponsive hotel manager to the company’s headquarters. There, she learned that styrofoam plates are on a list of products recommended throughout the entire hotel chain. This one list guides purchasing at hundreds of hotels all across the U.S….