1000 Flowers for the Planet - #66 Take Tongs to the Butcher
Also take your own freezer containers.
Meat is a huge user of plastics. If you buy
it at the supermarket it comes with polystyrene trays, those soppy tings that
soak up the blood and is wrapped in soft plastic. If you go to the butcher you
still get the meat in a plastic bag before it’s wrapped in paper.
A while ago I tried to get plastic free meat
from the butcher by asking him to put the meat directly into my own freezer
containers that I took along. To my horror I noticed that he used a plastic bag
to pick up the meat before putting it into the container, and worse, he used a
new bag for each different type of meat I requested. It completely defeated the
purpose.
The trick to this is to take your own tongs
along to the butcher and ask him to use those to put all your meat purchases
into their respective freezer containers. Job done – plastic free.
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