John Shaffer

Maryland Zoo

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Buy Unpackaged Produce

I will purchase produce items without plastic packaging.

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John Shaffer 7/27/2019 9:22 PM

The biggest difficulty for me out there is still the issue of plastic straws. I don't use the things yet restaurants persist in sending them along even when you tell them "no". You can give them back but I'm sure they just throw them away. It's Lose/Lose - waste in that they go unused and potentially deadly waste when they end up in the garbage stream.

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John Shaffer 7/12/2019 8:35 PM

Local in-season fruits and veges make buying unpackaged produce so easy!

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Food Buy Unpackaged Produce

Why do you think these produce products started amassing so much plastic packaging? Who is the plastic packaging really serving -- the consumer, the producer, or someone else?

John Shaffer 7/09/2019 1:08 PM

Wrapping produce serves producer, retailer and consumer. Plastic packaging makes for ease of sale for the retailer and the "modern" consumer has come to expect that everything they purchase to be wrapped and packed. I'm old enough to remember when soda and milk came in returnable (for deposit!) bottles, bottled water was unheard of, and people bought most of their produce from local open air markets in season. It took a little work, it took a little time, but we were "green" before we knew what that meant.

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John Shaffer 7/07/2019 8:48 PM

I know that many folks recycle their plastic bottled water bottles but do they really need to drink "bottled" water in the first place? Here in Baltimore, our tap water is excellent and still the number of cases of bottled water sold is staggering - why?

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John Shaffer 7/06/2019 6:53 PM

All produce purchased today without plastic packaging and US/locally grown. We make a point of always buying locally grown when available.

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