Open House REUSERS.COM 

The fact is that packaging makes up 30% of the trash in our landfills; that 30% is comprised of polystyrene foam, plastic and paper. "The EPA encourages practices that reduce the amount of waste needing to be disposed of, especially single-use packaging. The most effective way to reduce waste is to not create it in the first place."

Becoming Reusers...One Meal at the Time
The partnership is a community-based effort to eliminate or greatly reduce single-use packaging, starting with food take-out containers. This is how it works: customers and diners bringing in a Reusable Take-out Container (pictured below) will receive some value for 1) not wasting a take-out container 2) saving the restaurant the cost of a container. The restaurant decides what the value is: a discount equal to the price of the take-out container, or a set discount, or a free appetizer/drink, etc.

Reusers.com will provide a Reusers decal for your window so the diner knows the restaurant or market participates in this community effort.

Consumers win, businesses win, the environment wins.

Who are We?
We are Platos Table, a local St. Petersburg business that has invented reusable take-out containers available with multiple sizes suitable for small take home doggie bag portions or larger entree portions. These containers, called Platos, are BPA-free (the bad stuff in plastic) polypropylene plastic, dishwasher safe, microwaveable and most uniquely, they fold flat for storage or portability. Part of the issue with clam-shell "reusables" is that they are inconvenient to carry when not in use.

Join us in our campaign and become a REUSER ... join us and celebrate our community effort...it is just the right thing to do.  Act local!