Zero-Waste Food Packaging Introduced In Pinole

PINOLE, CA — The City of Pinole on Monday announced a partnership between a local restaurant and Foodware, a food service supplier, to offer zero-waste food packaging.

Fire Wings Pinole becomes the first restaurant in the city to introduce a sustainable model of reusables for takeout. The system works through the Foodware app, where customers add containers to their account for a small fee that is credited back upon return.

At Fire Wings Pinole, customers can receive their food packaged in a Foodware container upon request. They then have two weeks to return the container, creating a zero-waste system of food packaging.

Foodware also has partnerships with the City of Berkeley, City of Burlingame and San Mateo County.

This zero-waste plan is part of a larger single-use plastic reduction initiative called Plastic Wise Pinole.

Single-use packaging is an unsustainable pollutant that can damage the environment, and such packaging has been found as the major pollutant of Pinole Creek, the city said. Further, a 2011 Bay Area litter survey showed that 67% of all trash collected came from take-out food and beverage packaging.

In addition to reusable foodware, Pinole is also seeking to replace all single-use plastic bags with reusable or paper bags.

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