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Here is a rundown of the cost-benefit. I think it helps explain why plastic is used! https://www.forkranger.com/plastic-wrapping-of-cucumbers-clever-or-careles

• cseleborg 4y ago
  Thanks for posting this. The issue I have here is that I would need to spend hours researching whether wrapping a single kind of produce is OK or not. It's a science! Another example: is it better to buy the non-organic, locally produced apple or the organic apple that comes from Argentina? (I'm in Europe). In the store, I need simple heuristics to make my decisions. My heuristics: - Is there plastic? -> Pass - Is it produce from far away? -> Pass, mostly - Is it non-organic? -> Pass, if there's an organic alternative. And yeah, sometimes it's a decision between the produce that's organic but wrapped in plastic and that which is conventional but without wrapping and grown locally. That's a head-scratcher every time.