Plastic pollution is an environmental crisis, polluting our oceans and waterways, killing marine life and even impacting human health Supermarkets do not reveal how much plastic packaging they generate, making it impossible to see if their efforts to cut plastic are reducing their overall plastic use Loose fruit and vegetables are more expensive than plastic-wrapped […]
Loose produce generates a lot more wasted produce because people pick through for the best looking apples. Plastic packsging reduces the cost to the retailer.
If we want to reduce plastic, it has to be at the manufacturing and packaging step. Add the cost of pollution to the cost of creation. If we try to just tax convenience to death at the point of consumption, it will never work and it will make a lot of people angry.