• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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      18 hours ago

      You cannot use cardboard for liquids. There are containers that have a cardboard exterior – just tear them, and you’ll find out they are made out of a sandwich material with an interior layer of plastic, meddle layer of aluminium and exterior cardboard. almist unrecyclable.

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          20 hours ago

          Short distribution channels would be the best

          Else, fruits and food that don’t really need packaging because they have a natural bacteria barrier, or something similar

          But yea I don’t see any good sanitary alternative. Since we’re bound to get microplastics I guess reusable containers that are only washed and reused a couple of times would be beneficial, at the cost of a little more microplastics.

          Some kind of paper to a certain extend for some things, but yea, nothing is as good as plastic :(

          Don’t use plastic where you don’t need to. And then maybe use cardboard+thin plastic for the rest: less recyclable, but less plastic 🤔. Depends on the route you want to choose: less pollution or less plastic waste