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Counterintuitively, because food that's not wrapped in plastic spoils faster it's actually better for the environment to use plastic, owing to reduced waste els
by speleding 6y ago
Counterintuitively, because food that's not wrapped in plastic spoils faster it's actually better for the environment to use plastic, owing to reduced waste elsewhere.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoBut it's not. Spoiled produce is biodegradable. Plastic is not.
- speleding 6y agoFood takes energy to produce, transport and store, that releases (much) more CO2 for now than plastic packaging. Plastic is rather efficient, you only need a tiny drop of oil to create a lot of packaging. If food production at some point becomes CO2 neutral you still have a lot of other detrimental effects to the environment from food production to account for. Plastic is a net positive for the environment when it comes to food packaging.
- panzagl 6y agoBut if you need to ship twice as much unpackaged as packaged you're harming the environment in other ways.