I’ve switched to mostly glass, metal, and wood kitchenware, but even those have plastic lids. I try to get paper milk jugs, which I thought were lined with wax, but apparently are plastic? It’s almost impossible to get away from this shit.
Paper stuff that is meant to hold liquids will always be just a plastic bag with carton structure. Wax would be fine if you were filling and storing the liquid in your own home. But wax lined paper would never survive the shortest of transportation. Completely non-feasible for industrial scale agriculture. Soft drinks in cans also have plastic linings, metals are more resistant but would also eventually corrode in the midterm.
Does anyone remember the hysteria in like 2012-13 I think it was when people were freaking out about the wax on apples? Sure some suppliers were actually adding wax to their apples to make them shinier(and fuck the for that), but for the most part apples have their own natural wax as part of their skin.
We would be in exactly the same panic about wax as we are about plastic now, I definitely hate plastic but it feels like we are constantly being told to be worried to the point nothing is safe or should be trusted.
the wax was a sealant to make it easy to ship and prevent rotting. “one bad apple spoils the bunch” literally, so coat em in wax so the mould doesn’t spread as much.
I’ve switched to mostly glass, metal, and wood kitchenware, but even those have plastic lids. I try to get paper milk jugs, which I thought were lined with wax, but apparently are plastic? It’s almost impossible to get away from this shit.
If it makes you feel any better the milk, and all the foods you eat, already contain micro-plastics 👍
Paper stuff that is meant to hold liquids will always be just a plastic bag with carton structure. Wax would be fine if you were filling and storing the liquid in your own home. But wax lined paper would never survive the shortest of transportation. Completely non-feasible for industrial scale agriculture. Soft drinks in cans also have plastic linings, metals are more resistant but would also eventually corrode in the midterm.
Does anyone remember the hysteria in like 2012-13 I think it was when people were freaking out about the wax on apples? Sure some suppliers were actually adding wax to their apples to make them shinier(and fuck the for that), but for the most part apples have their own natural wax as part of their skin.
We would be in exactly the same panic about wax as we are about plastic now, I definitely hate plastic but it feels like we are constantly being told to be worried to the point nothing is safe or should be trusted.
the wax was a sealant to make it easy to ship and prevent rotting. “one bad apple spoils the bunch” literally, so coat em in wax so the mould doesn’t spread as much.