Plastic Wrap Creates More Food Waste, Study Finds
Source: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/plastic-wrap-food-waste-study/
Author: Jill Ettinger
The research found that selling the items loose instead of in plastic, as well as removing any ‘best-before’ dates, would have reduced plastic waste by more than 10,300 tons and saved about 100,000 tons of produce from going uneaten. The key difference, according to Wrap, is that when sold loose, customers purchased only what they needed, and used their own judgment to determine their own ‘best before’ timeline. Wrap is now urging supermarkets to remove excess plastic packaging and produce ‘best before’ dates by 2025 to help curb the food waste crisis. That shift alone would remove more than 1,000 garbage trucks worth of plastic each year.