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Understandable.
But also, how about actually cooking food.
Plenty of ingredients for cooking come in single use containers
Not ones that you wash out to recycle.
Meat trays would like a word with you.
Mine are all Styrofoam. What do you have?
The ones around here are made of P.E.T. Recyclable and washable.
styrofoam is recyclable and requires rinsing before recycling
Quick search says
So maybe technically but not in practice in most places.
I cook a lot and still have tons of plastic. Cheese. Quark. Cream.
Cauliflower? Wrapped in plastic.
Cucumber? Individually wrapped in plastic, or in a bag.
All protein? Plastic film and maybe some styrofoam for good measure.
Asian pears? INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED IN STRYOFOAM MESH
Small tomatoes or berries? Plastic container.
If someone buys their fresh foods from a grocery store, some things are impossible to find without already being wrapped in a ton of plastic. And they came in on a truck where the pallet was wrapped with another metric ton of plastic wrap.
It’s everywhere. Even when you’re not buying something wrapped in plastic, it was probably already wrapped in plastic and the store already threw it out for you.
None of which is recyclable, except the berry container.