Why do they have all that packaging? Most of it has been in or on shit covered dirt. I’m not overly concerned it’s touching another cucumber on a shelf.
Bananas in a bag….
They’re already in fucking skin tight bags!
I used to only buy packaged fruit and veg because I thought the loose stuff was off putting as it might get dirty or sneezed on or something.
Then I lived in a place where packaged stuff wasn’t available and realised I was being a complete pussy and an idiot, ruining the environment over a petty fear.
The government needs to legislate on plastic packaging, not advise. People like me need to be pushed in order to change, when it comes to climate and plastic usage.
Sell it loose, priced per Kg(none of this individual prices) with weighing and label printing machines, placed in paper bags with cellulose windows, which can then be scanned at the till
And I thought the wrapping was to reduce food waste? It might feel pointless to have a cucumber in plastic, but it does actually last longer that way.
Jesus, I grew up in a fenland village, you got your veg from local farmers, all loose so you took a basket, meat from the butcher which was wrapped in paper, milk from the milkman in a glass bottle, pop was also bought off the milkman and that was in a glass bottle.
They keep on about plastic nowadays but growing up in the 70s we were a very green generation, the pensioners in the village all agree with me as they’d say the same growing up in the 50s.
In the shops back then you’d have your fruit loose, your apples sold per pound, along with oranges sold singly, tomatoes singly too, taters in a supermarket you picked yourself and put in a paper bag, none of this plastic everywhere in my day.
In my local tesco I was asked multiple times by the cashier if I needed extra bags for my fruits and when I said no thanks, they clearly had a confusion.
Good idea. The dates on the packaging lead to waste.
There’s also the problem of pickers sticking every available bit if loose fruit and veg into a plastic bag when they do home deliveries. I bought loose broccoli as it doesn’t have the plastic packaging, not so it could be stuck in an unnecessary plastic bag…
Also without packaging the cost should be reduced by a few pence but we know that not going to happen
Do they mean reduce plastic waste? Because food waste only goes up when the food is more exposed, not down
my memory is telling me… half the excuse for pre-packed and dated fruit being ‘normal’ now, is because people would inspect fruit for ripeness and not buy it if it wasnt great, and would often bruise the fruit causing it to go bad faster.
so the sbd was added to reassure people, thus reducing food waste, but this meant it needed to be put in packs to be economical.
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imo, non-issue if you had parents teach you how to check for good produce.
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Why do they have all that packaging? Most of it has been in or on shit covered dirt. I’m not overly concerned it’s touching another cucumber on a shelf.
Bananas in a bag….
They’re already in fucking skin tight bags!
I used to only buy packaged fruit and veg because I thought the loose stuff was off putting as it might get dirty or sneezed on or something.
Then I lived in a place where packaged stuff wasn’t available and realised I was being a complete pussy and an idiot, ruining the environment over a petty fear.
The government needs to legislate on plastic packaging, not advise. People like me need to be pushed in order to change, when it comes to climate and plastic usage.
Sell it loose, priced per Kg(none of this individual prices) with weighing and label printing machines, placed in paper bags with cellulose windows, which can then be scanned at the till
And I thought the wrapping was to reduce food waste? It might feel pointless to have a cucumber in plastic, but it does actually last longer that way.
Jesus, I grew up in a fenland village, you got your veg from local farmers, all loose so you took a basket, meat from the butcher which was wrapped in paper, milk from the milkman in a glass bottle, pop was also bought off the milkman and that was in a glass bottle.
They keep on about plastic nowadays but growing up in the 70s we were a very green generation, the pensioners in the village all agree with me as they’d say the same growing up in the 50s.
In the shops back then you’d have your fruit loose, your apples sold per pound, along with oranges sold singly, tomatoes singly too, taters in a supermarket you picked yourself and put in a paper bag, none of this plastic everywhere in my day.
In my local tesco I was asked multiple times by the cashier if I needed extra bags for my fruits and when I said no thanks, they clearly had a confusion.
Good idea. The dates on the packaging lead to waste.
There’s also the problem of pickers sticking every available bit if loose fruit and veg into a plastic bag when they do home deliveries. I bought loose broccoli as it doesn’t have the plastic packaging, not so it could be stuck in an unnecessary plastic bag…
Also without packaging the cost should be reduced by a few pence but we know that not going to happen
Do they mean reduce plastic waste? Because food waste only goes up when the food is more exposed, not down
my memory is telling me… half the excuse for pre-packed and dated fruit being ‘normal’ now, is because people would inspect fruit for ripeness and not buy it if it wasnt great, and would often bruise the fruit causing it to go bad faster.
so the sbd was added to reassure people, thus reducing food waste, but this meant it needed to be put in packs to be economical.
​
imo, non-issue if you had parents teach you how to check for good produce.