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You can actually just buy the fruits and vegetables without putting them in a plastic bag. It gets some weird looks, but it's perfectly fine most places.

And as far as things like Halloween, it's not hard to get kids onboard with various projects and let them come up with solutions to things. "Less processed candy" wouldn't be a bad thing in our society. Though quite a bit of candy is a waxed paper wrap.

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I'm not referring to the plastic bags that you put your own vegetables in, I mean that at many groceries, including the one near me, these vegetables come prepackaged by the store/distributor and you don't have a choice to buy 10 loose raw potatoes or a whole corn-on-the-cob in a raw husk.

Of course it depends on the store - but then do I drive an extra 15 mins (and emit all that carbon...) just to go to a different store with some loose veggies?

Oh... weird. I've never run into that, but I'm out in something closer to farm country than I expect a lot of people are (it's a short walk from my place to active farm fields).

I think the right answer, if you're in that sort of plastic hellscape, is to find your local community agriculture box sort of projects, and get fresh things in a recyclable cardboard box. Though I would also consider "not shopping at the place you mention and explaining to a manager why."

He means they come pre-wrapped in plastic. Like a shrink wrapped box would in the electronics department. Not raw veggies you put into a bag yourself.

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