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It's not banning packaging, it's banning plastic packaging.
by boudin 5y ago
It's not banning packaging, it's banning plastic packaging.
- whatever1 5y agoWhich is all of the packaging that can seal airtight things.
- comeonseriously 5y agoWhy does your fruit have to be in an air tight container?
- Y-bar 5y agoWhy do bananas, broccoli, bell peppers, potatoes and such vegetables require an airtight container? I see those and other produce regularly in plastic wrap or packaging here in Europe.
- foxfluff 5y agoI don't know about airtight but bananas have repeatedly made a tacky mess in my backpack. Also salads. Just the other week I had a tofu salad leak all over my backpack :( I'm now wrapping these in plastic bags.
- pvaldes 5y agoBecause by its nature they use gases as hormones so is important to control air exposure.
- phonypc 5y agoThere is a gaseous plant hormone (ethylene) that's relevant here, but it certainly doesn't indicate wrapping everything in airtight containers.
- superkuh 5y agoObviously not all produce requires it but plastic allows fine control of humidity/moisture. The green onions I buy sealed in plastic last about 3 times longer than those I buy without packaging. Food lasting a long time matters a lot to me, and many others, right now because I try to reduce my shopping trips as much as possible due to the pandemic.
- Y-bar 5y agoCan’t you put them in a reusable plastic/glass/metal/… container once you get home to make them last?
- superkuh 5y agoThe ones that aren't packaged properly (ie, with plastic) are already losing weeks of storage time while in shipping and waiting at the grocer.
- Y-bar 5y agoThis law is not preventing airtight packaging in weights above 1.5kg and I bet that the store will still get these produce shipped in weights above that. So, what I understand what you are saying is that the hour or so of you picking it up at the shop until you put it in your fridge will result in "losing weeks of storage time", but I can't understand how that is possible. Can you explain?
- superkuh 5y agoThrowing a bunch of produce together in large masses is generally a very good way of getting it to rot. Having it shipped, individually wrapped bundles in moisture controlled plastic bags, inside of larger containers, now that works.
- Y-bar 5y agoLike this for bananas? https://challengesworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/banana-crates.png https://challengesworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/b... Or this for potatoes? https://ijrorwxhniojmj5p.leadongcdn.com/cloud/mrBppKjpRmmSnjponlor/Agriculture-Use-pallet-box-food-grade.jpg https://ijrorwxhniojmj5p.leadongcdn.com/cloud/mrBppKjpRmmSnj... Or this for onions? https://cdn.w600.comps.canstockphoto.com/onions-on-pallets-stock-photograph_csp22496393.jpg https://cdn.w600.comps.canstockphoto.com/onions-on-pallets-s... How many examples do we need? All I see is you asserting something not evident in the real world.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoI don't know about those fruits and vegetables, but cucumbers in particular are often shrink-wrapped in plastic, for good reason. Without the plastic, they go bad much, much faster; a matter of days instead of weeks.
- Markoff 5y agoTBH cucumber would go bad for sure much faster than in weeks even in plastic I usually buy cucumber with intention if preparing something, but get to it like 1-2 weeks later when it starts to get already soft, while it's shrink wrapped, so I really doubt it's really matter of "weeks" unless you mean 2 weeks
- frosted-flakes 5y agoI do mean two weeks.
- thebean11 5y agoI don't think fruit and vegetables do well in airtight containers? Every plastic container I've seen has air holes in it.
- boudin 5y agoNo, there's alternative like corn starch based packages.