Innovative Supermarket Uses Banana Leaf Packaging To Avoid Plastics
Banana Leaves as packaging may sound weird for many. For Thai Supermarket, Rimping Supermarket located in Chiangmai, Thailand, this is how they choose to make a difference in the over usage of plastic in the world.
The Supermarket wraps banana leaves around the fruit or vegetable and ties it using a ribbon. They then paste a sticker on the leaf showing the code and the price of the fruit or vegetable.
In addition, they have a sticker which reads ?pesticide safe? in order to assure the customers that the fruit or vegetables are grown in the most safest way possible.
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One of the sights you invariably see at supermarkets might be individual fruits or vegetables packaged in plastic, which some might consider an excessive use of said plastic.
Rimping? They?ve come up with a rather interesting alternative to full plastic packaging
The initiative to use banana leaves is something street vendors in Thailand have been doing for years, but now supermarkets are using the idea too.
While the idea seems simple enough, there are still a few people who prefer the wholly-wrapped, plastic-encased, food.
Here?s Why Using Plastic Is A Real Problem:
Each year, around 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the world?s oceans. It?s like dumping a rubbish truck full of plastic in the water every single minute.
In the US, which accounts for just 4% of the global population, 500 million plastic straws are used every day.
The average superm...
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