Milk, Not Plastic, Will Protect Food in the Future
Plastic is unsustainable and doesn’t work well. Now there’s a new kind of wrapper that won’t kill the planet—and tastes good.
The poultry aisle at a Whole Foods Market store in Oakland, Calif.
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Much of the plastic packaging we see in the grocery store can be recycled, from egg containers, to milk jugs, to butter tubs. But what about that thin plastic film stretched around wedges of manchego in the cheese bin or the 16-ounce rib-eye in the chiller case?
It turns out that kind of plastic is tougher to recycle and might even be adding harmful chemicals to your food. Oh, and it’s not even good at doing what it’s supposed to do: prevent food spoilage.