Canned food – Good for the Environment? Doesit ever strike your mind as to how many food containers do you end up tucking in the garbage bin on a weekly basis? And where do they end up? As a consumer you are eventually the end-causeof the massive piles of plastic waste that end up in landfills on a daily basis.
All of us who visit the supermarket on a regular basis have always picked up food items off the shelves. Both perishable and non-perishable food items are available in cans as well as in plastic packaging. It does not make a difference to a regular consumer as to what food item he or she chooses because at the end of it all, it is the quality of the food in it that matters. But thinking about it from a different perspective, does it ever strike your mind as to how many food containers do you end up tucking in the garbage bin on a weekly basis? And where do they end up? As a consumer you are eventually the end-cause of the massive piles of plastic waste that end up in landfills on a daily basis.
Both plastic and tin packaging’s have their benefits, but in the end it’s the metal cans that end up in a recycling facility and not the plastic. It is a known fact that only 3% of the plastic that leaves a factory ever comes back and gets recycled; the rest of which gets disposed off via consumer trash into landfills simply because nobody has the time to sit down and segregate them. Recycling is a resource consuming process which is why recycled plastic is a lot more expensive to produce when compared it virgin counterpart. This is why almost everyone out there ignores plastic recycling.