Plastic Fantastic

[izmeina]

It’s now 2 weeks into the Plastic Free July challenge which involves avoiding all single use plastics such as water bottles, take away coffee cups, straws and the ubiquitous grey plastic shopping back so freely handed out at the checkouts here in Oz

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[tabular_rasa]

Food packaging is maddening! I try my best to use my canvas bags at the store, purchase my produce without additional bags, and buy prepared foods in larger quantities (family-size chip bags rather than single serve, etc) to limit packaging and pay a cheaper price, too. But there's no way to totally avoid it; even when I shop bulk bins and whatnot I need a bag for what I'm getting.

Strangely, Japan was even worse about this. Single pieces of fruit were all individually wrapped as well as often shrink-wrapped in sets, snacks usually came single-serving wrapped in addition to the box or bag they came in. For a nation that prides itself on its recycling it was insane!

I think it's a good challenge you're doing, and I can see how it would really force you to rely mostly on homemade foods, and sticking to the fresh-food parts of the supermarket rather than the aisles and aisles of packaged goods.

[izmeina]

Your comment brought back not so fond memories of working in a noodle factory. The world is so crazy that it was cheaper for a Japanese noodle company to outsource production to Australia and send Frozen - not dried udon noodles all the way to Japan