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By March 1, 2023, your favourite food truck won t be permitted to hand you a plastic fork to dig into that poutine. The takeout meal you order will have to be packaged in reusable containers.
It’s time to stop using the COVID-19 pandemic to justify the mountains of waste being generated by single-use items, and get back to promoting reusable items.
MONTREAL When many restaurants pivoted from a dine-in formula to selling takeout food just to survive the shutdown, lots of Montrealers tired of cooking and in need of distraction started scrolling through online menus in a hurry. That proved to be a boon for Christian Manuel Ventura’s business, who said he decided to open the takeout counter seven days a week instead of five at one of his three restaurants, Momo, where he prepared roll after roll of vegan sushi. “So, for the past year, I didn’t have any days off, to be honest,” the chef and entrepreneur said, musing that “when COVID is over, I might take a vacation!”