Fact sheet: Reuse saves restaurants money (2022)

American food service establishments spend $24 billion each year purchasing nearly one trillion pieces of disposable foodware. This generates nearly 9 million tons of waste, which costs businesses and local governments $6 billion per year to manage. Switching to reusables for onsite dining everywhere and to reusables for take-out in urban areas can reduce disposables by 86% and would result in $5 billion in cost savings each year for food service operators.