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> It's better to have leftover fruit than to use plastic. As I wrote, this is not obvious. Leftovers require energy and resources to produce, transport, and po
by pizza234 6y ago
> It's better to have leftover fruit than to use plastic.
As I wrote, this is not obvious. Leftovers require energy and resources to produce, transport, and possibly destroy. Energy and resources imply pollution.
This is very similar to the plastic vs. glass problem. One intuitively thinks that glass is better, but when transport pollution is included in the equation, glass is not necessarily better anymore.
- 1123581321 6y agoI would agree it’s not necessarily obvious, but the solutions to use all food transported are local, and consistent traits that cause produce to degrade over, over time, identified earlier so those pieces can be diverted to byproducts more cheaply. Additionally, there’s that hands-on produce sells better which achieves public health goals and arguably reduces consumption of more environmentally damaging foods. There are multiple layers of misleading intuition to consider.