Mount Prospect is working with local restaurants to reduce reliance on single-use plastics. The Single-Use Plastic Utensil Reduction Program — S.U.P.U.R. for short — will roll out March 14.

And if a plastic fork weighs about 5 grams, our landfills would be spared roughly 200,000 tons of single-use plastic utensils, “a weight equivalent to 889 Statues of Liberty,” Valliant added.