Comment on My mother-in-law's way of sealing plastic bags. Yes that's been burnt by the stove top
404@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
We all agree this is bad for food safety, but don’t you think regular sealing will affect the food as well? Of course melting the edges to seal them will produce some amount of gasses, even if it’s not burning, just like warm water will evaporate even if it’s not boiling. We shouldn’t use plastics for packaging at all.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
But it’d cost an extra 3 cents to use other packaging!
404@lemmy.zip 5 minutes ago
…yes, and limit the shelf life of the product, which is plastics’ biggest benefit. Air and water tight packaging extends shelf lives to ridiculous lenghts, especially if filled with an inert gas like your typical bag of fresh salad leaves. Besides saving money on produce that would spoil without plastic packaging, alternative packaging would entail changing people’s eating habits, especially in the northern hemisphere. :/