Wrap a fork, spoon and knife from home in a cloth napkin and keep them in your bag or desk. Tick no cutlery on delivery apps.
Each plastic utensil weighs about 2.6 g; a three-piece set once a week is roughly 400 g a year. A 2024 life-cycle assessment (LCA) of banned single-use items found plastic cutlery worst in almost every impact category compared with alternatives.
The catch: wooden or PLA cutlery is still single-use, and the same LCA found biodegradable cutlery scored worse than plastic on eutrophication and ozone depletion; reuse beats any disposable.