![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These laws-like our society-need a complete overhaul. It’s a little bit ridiculous that manufacturers can make all of this stuff with no rules to clean up after themselves but we have silly food laws that won’t allow us to return a basket or in some areas, fill up a jar with bulk food. The vendors who sell eggs are also not supposed to reused cartons customers return but some do. Much of our plastic has never been recycled an now much of it goes to landfill, according to this investigative piece in The Guardian. The China ban on taking our trash-and why should China take it?-has exposed this. So, if I return them to the vendor after bringing them home, they will recycle them, which is often more like wish-cycling. The thinking behind this law is that the baskets become contaminated in our homes. If I take them home and later return them, the vendor can’t reuse them unless they first steam them with a very expensive piece of equipment that no one owns. If I (gently) dump the berries into a produce bag or a jar and return the baskets to the vendor while I’m at the booth, the vendor can reuse them. Here is the deal on the little plastic boxes for strawberries at my farmers’ market in Palo Alto, California. Farmers’ market strawberries in plastic boxes Your area’s silly food laws may vary ![]()
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