Safety and environmental issues with Amtrak's Flex Dining concept

[Devil's Advocate]

It should be noted that washing dishes and linens also has an environmental footprint, too.

It should also be noted that recycling water is easier and more practical than recycling plastic.

By the way, even those yummy traditional dining meals are for the most part precooked and come in lots of disposable wrappings that are discarded before the meal is plated. Even the few things that are cooked on the train are probably wrapped before being cooked. So traditional dining probably also generates a lot of waste, it's just that the customer doesn't see it.

The excessive use of single-use plastics is a systemwide problem that is not limited to a particular region or route. Today Amtrak is trashing more waste by volume than ever before. How do we know this? Because we can see the volume of trash being dumped at longer service stops with our own two eyes.