Westporters love our restaurants. They’ve got great food, and offer excellent service.
We get the same great food when we order takeout. We don’t get the dining-in service — but we get lots of “stuff.”
Plastic utensils. Napkins. Straws. Condiment packets.
The kind of stuff that we usually already have at hand, and probably don’t need,
Do you really need all that stuff?
Sustainable Westport, the Town of Westport, Westport Farmers’ Market, Westport Downtown Association and the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce all say: Enough!
They’ve banded together to encourage Westport to #SkipTheStuff. The goal is to reduce unnecessary takeout waste from local restaurants.
#SkipTheStuff is part of a national campaign to enact legislation requiring restaurants to ask before adding unnecessary “stuff” to orders.
Good news! We’re head of the game. Westport already has an ordinance prohibiting food service establishments from including “stuff” in orders without request.
It’s part of the Single-Use Plastics Ordinance, adopted by the Representative Town Meeting in 2019.
Westport’s #SkipTheStuff campaign encourages residents to only ask for the single-use or disposable items you truly need.
At the same time, don’t expect food service establishments to provide you with “extras” or “stuff.” By law, they should be included in your order only if you specifically ask for them.
Westporters should invest in reusable “travel utensils” to carry with you, if you won’t be eating your takeout meal at home.
For more information about #SkipTheStuff, click here.
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