Your unwrapped produce at the grocery store isn’t “plastic-free” ...Middle East

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While environmentally conscious buyers may opt to buy groceries without plastic packaging, agricultural plastic used to grow those foods is an evergrowing challenge. With carbon emissions from plastic estimated to outpace coal by 2030, and an increasing awareness of how PFAS in water and soil can affect public health, alternatives to plastic are needed well before a piece of produce arrives at the grocery store.In particular, plastic film used for mulching sits on top of the soil surrounding crops. Depending on the farmer, the plastic film is used for a single season—then is discarded, burned, or even shredded and left in the soil. “A lot of farmers use a black plastic mulch. And then they’l

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