Are you dumping #SingleUse #plastic to help make the #planet #Greener?
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@show Food is hard. It would be a good start to require state and county health department regulations to provide specific alternatives to single use packaging for food. So often when I ask about not using plastic packaging the response I get is, "We are required to use it by the health inspector."
@antares That's an interesting take - Which states?
There are now biodegradable plastics ...
@show I'm in California, but the regulations requiring that fresh meat, cut produce and other prep items be covered in plastic before storage or display seem to be based on a national trade group model.
The restaurant I worked for recently went through an industrial sized role of plastic wrap a week, and I know we were not unique.
With regard to biodegradable plastics, I know they exist and some are even petrochemical free, but as a consumer, it is hard for me to identify that they are being used and at least in 2023 they are a significant increase in expense.
@antares This is something that the industry neesd to work more on, of course!