Forcing Fast Food Restaurants to Use Real Plates, Glasses, and Cutlery for Dine-In Customers

Verzoekschrift gericht aan: European Commission / European Parliament

Fast food restaurants should stop serving dine-in meals in single-use packaging.

If people eat inside the restaurant, their food and drinks should be served on reusable plates, in real cups or glasses, and with washable cutlery. Disposable boxes, cups, lids, wrappers, and cartons should be kept for takeaway, delivery, and drive-through orders, where packaging is actually needed.

When someone eats at a table inside the restaurant, most of this waste is used for only a few minutes before it goes straight into the bin. It is unnecessary, and on this scale, it adds up to a huge amount of avoidable rubbish.

Other restaurants, cafés, canteens, and bakeries manage to wash dishes every day. Large fast food chains can do it too.

This is a simple and realistic step: no single-use packaging for meals eaten inside the restaurant.
We ask for rules that make reusable plates, cups, glasses, and cutlery the standard for all dine-in customers at fast food restaurants.