Why wrap fruits and vegetables at all? They come to the store in boxes that ensure they aren't damaged in transport, I don't see the need for another layer of packaging. The only vegetable I buy in a package is lettuce, which would probably dry out pretty quickly if it wasn't in something.

It might reduce food waste, but it creates plastic waste. I would rather have the former than the latter. Food waste composts, plastic waste does not.

Then put them in paper cradles, like we do with eggs.

I suspect it just moves the waste, and perhaps more, to the home.

If you now have to buy a kilo bag, instead of the few you think you'll need for the next week or two, you'll probably be throwing some deteriorated produce along with the plastic bags.

For onions and spuds plastic is a poor choice anyway as they should be able to breathe. Better still, unwashed, as with carrots. Why, oh why, do supermarkets insist on washing off natural protection?

At what point do we decide that having a one-time use plastic wrapper, that will last a thousand years or so, is worth using to make a perishable good last 3x as long? Was this an issue when food was still grown relatively close to the market in which it was being sold? None of the vegetables at the local farmers markets I've been to are wrapped in plastic, with few exceptions (cut off 1/2 a cantaloupe because it had a nasty bad spot). And the food actually has flavor. The flavor part is what made me actually stop purchasing produce from regular stores. It is utterly bland next to something grown locally that hasn't had the flavor engineered out of it to allow it sit on some shelf (or warehouse) somewhere for a longer period time.