Pilot scheme supplies 1,000 folding boxes to farms and wholesalers to reduce single-use cardboard, paper and plastic
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A pilot scheme to replace cardboard produce boxes with reusable plastic crates has been launched in Victoria, with the aim to cut “invisible” cardboard waste.
Ah yes, let’s reduce the waste from growable and biodegradable packaging to use plastic that will shed microplastics directly onto the food, and everywhere else.
Maybe next we can move away from paper straws to a reusable plastic straw?
Those paper straws do suck though lol
Actually they don’t suck and that’s why people hate them.
In more ways than one
Sure, let’s continue to chop down forests, create waste chemical byproducts and produce greenhouse gases as the waste decomposes. So we can cart food around for a few hundred kilometres in a single use cardboard box.
All because we’ve now pivoted to making microplastics the devil.
Sure, Reusable Wooden crates would be better. But maybe they’re not as viable.
Reduce > Reuse > Recycle
Paper/cardboard production does not require clearing land, there is vast amounts of already cleared land that can be used as sites for tree farms. Paper and wood product is the lesser evil compared to plastic.
Reusable wooden crates would be an ideal alternative, and what we used for a very long time prior to plastics. Same with glass.
Plastic boxes?
