Stevenson dining has replaced their old styrene to-go containers with more environmentally friendly paper containers.

“In this day and age, waste is huge,” said Mark Gregory, residential dining administrator for Stevenson Hall. The old containers would take 500 years to decompose in a landfill, and this is a better way of approaching things,” Gregory added.

Some students are unhappy with the new containers because they make it difficult to carry multiple items.

“Last year I would bring it back to my dorm room and I would get a bunch of stuff and stack it and now you can’t do that,” said Katherine Meehan, sophomore speech language and pathology major.

Freshman finance major Mason Bush also likes to bring back food from Stevenson and has run into the same problem as Meehan.

“I just got one thing because I couldn’t carry more than one thing,” Bush said. “I wanted a drink, but I couldn’t carry it.”

Stevenson dining recognized this problem and has made trays and saran wrap available as a way to help students carry their food items, Gregory said.

Both Meehan and Bush knew of these options but did not find them to be very helpful.

“You have to buy the trays,” Meehan said. “And I don’t want to spend my meal plan on a tray.”

The saran wrap wasn’t helpful either, Meehan said.

“I had to wrap it around the container multiple times or else it would just fall off,” she added.

While students may have minor difficulties, it is important for them to consider the environment, Gregory said.

“It’s a matter of is it most convenient for me, or will it help us all as a whole?” Gregory said.