Cucumbers could soon look very different in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Lidl and Aldi
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@Samyo seems totally fine
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@Samyo
You could have posted an excerpt to avoid ...
"Eco-friendly food producers have taken a bite out of throwaway packaging - by making it edible. The new additive-free wrap for cucumbers, made of rapeseed and oat oil, has been launched by food-tech firm Saveggy. And it says the innovation could cut plastic waste while preserving quality and shelf life."
NB: if sunsunsun hadn't left a comment, I wouldn't have clicked on the link.
2 reasons: security against fishing (probability) and pertinence! Energy safety too
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Yea plastic is a big problem, but so is oil. Or else what would be done with that fraction.
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He probably agrees now he's keto.
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@ThinPicking said in Cucumbers could soon look very different in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Lidl and Aldi:
plastic is a big problem, but so is oil.
That's a question of biodegradability. The oil is biodegradable and recyclable. Quite quickly bio-degradable. Food-grade plastic, however, is not, at least not in terms of "biodegradation."
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The new additive-free wrap for cucumbers, made of rapeseed and oat oil:
It will break down naturally (composted) in days–weeks under typical biological/composting conditions and leaves little persistent residue.
Usual plastic (polyethylene film) is petroleum-based, not biodegradable in the environment — it can persist for decades to centuries, fragment into microplastics, and usually requires mechanical recycling to avoid long-term pollution (recycled in wires or in build material). Microplastics is found back in the ocean and is absorbed by local fauna. -
Here cucumbers are just sold without packaging. I don't know why there should any packaging at all.
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@pittybitty yeah, they wrap long English cucumbers individually here and even the smaller field cucumbers are put on a styrofoam tray and plastic wrapped. even when they sell 2 packs of 18 eggs together here at Costco, they use plastic wrap to keep two cartons together, because people are apparently too stupid to just pick up two, or it's way too expensive just to use recycled paper wrap to keep the two cartons together.
I lowkey threatened the egg producer about this and they stopped replying to me
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@sunsunsun is your concern surrouding the environmental impacts of plastic or the health effects
