MUNCIE, INDIANA - If you've lived in Indiana before going to Ball State, it's a household name. Whether it be casserole, vegetables or fresh bread, you had to store the leftovers somewhere. Tupperware, the plastic container company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, like most companies filing for bankruptcy, they need to liquidate their assets.
Ball State University, who pays its President Geoffery Mearns more than Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America, invests in weapons that are directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, and removed its bus tracking app has taken this as an opportunity to cheap out once more.
The Atrium, which was assassinated to be an all-you-can-fit dining hall, has been assassinated once more with a new Tupperware rental container system. Instead of the biodegradable composable boxes, in the name of environmentalism, the University is renting out Tupperware containers.
Dining portrays this as being more environmentally-friendly, but that's a lie. The old paper containers were composable--it said so right on the container! On the contrary, plastic containers (albeit the use ReusePass, not Tupperware) are resulting in tiny plastic shards and fibers entering the nose tissue at the base of your brain (per MSN). It doesn't matter if the plastic is "recyclable #5" like their Instagram says; it's still plastic, cannot compost, cannot be destroyed, and have the potential to cause harm to the student body.
Hell, even dining themselves posted how eco-friendly the old containers were!
You're now required to download the ReusePass app just to get the new small plastic containers that hold obviously less food. If you don't return it on-time, you'll be charged a fine.
Some students even question the cleanliness of this experiment, posting to YikYak that their containers were greasy.
No one knows why dining keeps changing The Atrium, but one thing's certain: Unless you're absolutely craving something specific, it's not worth $9.45.