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≥ I demand my frozen vegetables are packaged in plastic bags. Paper boxes are perfectly suitable for frozen veg. They stack perfectly. Less flexible, I'll gi
by dbcurtis 8y ago
≥ I demand my frozen vegetables are packaged in plastic bags.
Paper boxes are perfectly suitable for frozen veg. They stack perfectly. Less flexible, I'll give you that. But a compostable box versus plastic seems like a win to me.
I suspect the reason manufacturers and grocers like plastic is that in a paper box, poor handling is dead obvious, because if the produce partially thaws in transit the box gets damp and is a telltale for poor temperature control.
- jdietrich 8y ago>Paper boxes are perfectly suitable for frozen veg. Only if you coat the inside with plastic, thereby making the paper non-recyclable.
- organsnyder 8y agoThere are biodegradable coatings that allow the paper to still be compostable.
- Spivak 8y agoIf this caught on wouldn't the article be in 5 years "Just 10% of U.S. paper products are composted?" Is the problem really the material or is is the fact that it's single use.
- jolmg 8y agoPaper boxes are also single-use and meant to be recycled, aren't they? This subthread is about how recycling is not enough and how we need to switch to reusable packaging. Instead of paper boxes, it would be nice if it became the norm to go into stores with our own containers to put our food in instead of using store-provided, single-use packaging. It's ok if they're plastic as long as they're intended and made to be used and reused for years.
- jdsully 8y agoThe paper boxes are bio degradable. A major difference.
- bobthepanda 8y agoIIRC a problem with this is bacteria; bacteria can hang around in reusable bags.
- jolmg 8y agoYes, reusability means that we need to clean more stuff. We won't be able to just throw out dirty stuff anymore.
- winter_blue 8y agoI once had some frozen foods delivered to me in a paper/cardboard box. There was ice around the frozen food, and it had melted partially, and the water had made the bottom of the cardboard box soft and mushy. When I lifted the cardboard box, its bottom tore, and my frozen foods started poking out. A plastic-like bag would not have tore due to wetness/water, would have been be a lot thinner, lighter, and not required any dead trees to make. If it were biodegradable, there no major environmental concerns either.