Plastic seals food, sterile medical implements, medicine, beverages, etc… it’s seems like plastic is used as a way to seal things safely. Post pandemic rising, I see even more. My work used to be have plastic utensils in the cafeteria, for example, an already wasteful thing. Now, post-2020, every fork, knife, and spoon is individually wrapped in a plastic wrapper. I feel like the more my desire to escape plastic intensifies, the more plastic I see all around me everywhere.

How can we get away from plastic as a safety layer?

  • TalesFromTheKitchen
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    1 year ago

    In my opinion the reason we use it so much is because plastic has a giant (fossil fuel) lobby behind it. Just take a look at some photos from groceries from a couple of decades ago. Packaging was usually paper, cardboard, metal, glass or cellophane. If you wanted meat or cheese, you’d get it at the counter (which also made you conscious on how much you actually needed) they’d wrap it in wax paper and Bob’s your uncle. You can still go out of your way and shop like that, but most people don’t.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-pushing-plastics-on-the-world-.html