Environmental Impact Assessment: What happens to bento boxes after downing that chicken leg with rice? During his bachelor existence, he admitted, he always threw empty bento boxes in with other non-recyclable solid trash. Cleaned bento boxes, ready for recycling. Used paper tableware is pictured in January last year. Yet used bento boxes are often trucked a considerable distance — Tainan, for instance, is over 200km from the nearest recycling plant — and processing them requires significant amounts of electricity and water.

Source: Taipei Times August 10, 2021 15:56 UTC