So Much Produce Comes in Plastic. Is There a Better Way? As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you.

4 comments

1. People look at me like I’m a savage when I put fresh, unpackaged fruits and vegetables onto the cashier conveyor belt instead of a plastic bag first.

2. If it would be a serious and in that case revolutionary solution it would ve made it into the headline

   Money rules the world

3. Noticed an E number I didn’t recognise on a waxed lemon – oxidised polyethylene. We have no chance

4. >The ideal solution, he said, would be to go back to the days before plastic, when grocers stacked their produce by hand and no one demanded that seasonal fruit like blueberries be available year-round.

   >“I don’t think we’re going to live to see that,” he said.

   But since that’s the ideal solution, maybe we could at least try?