>Wasted food that goes to compost or landfill is benign. No, no, a thousand times no. Farming is massively carbon-intensive. That handful of leftovers might h

>Wasted food that goes to compost or landfill is benign. No, no, a thousand times no. Farming is massively carbon-intensive. That handful of leftovers might have resulted in hundreds of grams of CO2 emissions during its production, processing and distribution. Plastic just sits there in landfill, or maybe chokes a sea turtle if someone tosses it in a watercourse. Atmospheric CO2 is causing the greatest crisis in the history of humanity; ocean acidification will likely make the sea turtle extinct within a century. Using a few grams of plastic to avoid hundreds of grams of CO2 is a huge win.