{"id":26615,"date":"2022-05-18T16:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=26615"},"modified":"2022-05-25T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T18:52:53","slug":"isenhour-interviewed-for-waste-dive-about-reusable-takeout-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/05\/18\/isenhour-interviewed-for-waste-dive-about-reusable-takeout-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"Isenhour interviewed for Waste Dive about reusable takeout containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"23864\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23864\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Variety of food takeout containers on counter in front of white background\" width=\"215\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-878x1024.jpg 878w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-768x896.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-1316x1536.jpg 1316w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-1755x2048.jpg 1755w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-105x123.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-317x370.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-423x494.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-634x740.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-846x987.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-951x1110.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/07\/Takeout-containers-Vitalii-Matokha-on-shutterstock_1722788215-cropped-1268x1479.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,215px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Vitalii Matokha\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/cindy-isenhour\/\">Cindy Isenhour<\/a>, associate professor of anthropology and climate change and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, recently spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/reusable-takeout-plastic-dispatch-goods-deliver-zero\/622008\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Dive<\/a> about her research on reusable takeout containers. In fall 2021, Isenhour worked with graduate student Jared Entwistle to present a few possible models for reusable takeout containers to a group of 35 Maine hospitality, waste and environmental management stakeholders as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/road-to-solutions\/exploring-the-potential-for-reusable-take-out-packaging-in-maine\/\">larger project<\/a> examining the potential for reusables in the state. Isenhour noted that the majority said they would prefer a third-party service that regularly dropped off clean containers. Costs involved in providing permanent storage space and cleaning packaging appeared to be factors given businesses current issues with staffing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, recently spoke with Waste Dive about her research on reusable takeout containers. In fall 2021, Isenhour worked with graduate student Jared Entwistle to present a few possible models for reusable takeout containers to a group of 35 Maine hospitality, waste and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26689,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615\/revisions\/26689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}