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I went to the supermarket today (a Waitrose but it's same story with all of them) and noticed...
• The entire cheese aisle = everything is covered in plastic, except the brie.
• Meat section = all plastic packaging.
• Fish section = all plastic packaged.
• Ham/Salami section = all plastic packets, plastic wrap.
• Yoghurt and deserts = all plastic containers.
• Bread/Pastry = all plastic packaged except 20% in house bakery stuff.
• Breakfast Cereals all in plastic bags(inside cardboard boxes) except Organic Irish oats in paper sack.
• Frozen section = all in plastic except a few items such as pre roll pastry.
• fruit / veg section, a good 80% in various types of plastic packaging, mostly a plastic tray with plastic bag around it.
There's something very wrong about all this plastic, this single use plastic.
Especially when you consider how much plastic is in the ocean, and how much gets dumped in each day - how it's ending up inside the stomachs of seabirds, fish and marine life.
Then add to it the knowledge that plastic containers are contaminated with micro particles of plastic:
https://time.com/5581326/plastic…All this plastic wrapped food can't be good for humans and the environment in the long run.
But it's so hard to buy foods not in plastic. I managed to get the Oats and Brie, some loose fruits/veg...All the biscuits were plastic wrapped. KitKats aren't within a multipack, but the overall pack is plastic wrapped. Will have to bake my own biscuits - was able to buy flour, butter, sugar, honey, oats and chocolate in non plastic packaging.
Really hard to go 1 week without consuming something that's been inside plastic. Really hard to reduce you plastic waste output.
- I remember in Beijing, yoghurt coming in ceramic pots, with a paper cover and rubber band holding paper on. Pots were washed and reused again.shapesalad
- Would be great to see that in UK. And other alternatives.shapesalad
- With the story below, surely all this increase in plastic wrapped food has some correlation to cancer rates increasing...shapesalad
- Incredibly hard, I’ve been trying for a few months now.futurefood
- There are no alternative materials reallydrgs