All of our food that is not for cooking goes into our ozone machine before we eat any of it. I trust nobody from picker to vendor with my fresh foodš¤¬
No. Let someone else do it.
Most of the fruit and veg that is packed into plastic packages has already been handled by the pickers and packers, so it needs washing anyway.
For example, a lot of green beans sold in UK supermarkets are imported from Kenya.
Iāve visited an agri-produce plant where they pick and pack green beans in Kenya and believe me, they donāt use anti-bacterial gel or wear rubber gloves!
I fully understand why the supermarket packages of green beans advise you to wash before use!
Then thereās traces of pesticides to wash off - Iāll never forget the day I ate a cherry before I washed them - within seconds my lips were burning and they came up in blisters - I can only assume there was some residual pesticide chemical on it. The damage to my lips took months for my body to repair.
Same goes for apples, pears etc - I would never trust they were completely free of pesticides, so I wash them before eating -
Then any root veg needs washing after growing in the earth -
thorough washing also takes care of the issue of anyone who may have prodded or poked your produce before you bought it.
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And what do you do with the plastic waste, Boot ?
Do you recycle it or dump it like AT?
If I knew how to post a Poll, Iād do a recycling poll asking if folks recycle
Cardboard
Paper
Glass
Silver Foil
Soft Plastic
Hard Plastic
Anything Else
No, throw it away and get someone else to do it
Thatās always been my assumption. I also wash fish and meat for the same reason & to get rid of any congealed blood. They advise us not to wash meat but I do anyway and we never have had food poisoning.
In terms of the OP I always thought best before dates or use by dates on fruit and veg were to get us to throw it out and buy more, generating revenue for the supermarkets. They should provide āpicked onā date instead.
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A āpicked onā date would be brilliant!
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The only thing that goes into my landfill bin is used tissues.
My council picks up all recycling, other than soft plastics, I take them to my local Co-Op and blister packs I take to Superdrugs.
What plastic waste @ruthio ?
I have already posted that I always try to buy my fruit and veg loose whenever possible - I take my own re-usable cloth bag to the market stall on Wednesday and Saturday to buy my fruit and veg - or call at the High Street greengrocers. If I buy fruit & veg from a supermarket, I try to buy it loose if possible.
I try to buy seasonal produce and avoid stuff with lots of air miles - luckily I live in area where most folk grow lots of fruit and veg in their gardens and we share it with each other when itās ready to harvest.
If I do buy stuff in plastic, such as a punnet of soft fruit in Summer, I recycle the plastic punnet in my recycling bin.
Very little goes in to my landfill bin - most waste can be composted in my garden compost or recycled, either in the recycling bin or by taking it to the local tip.
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Well Iāve done my environmental bit - and more. Weāve had three heat pumps installed, weāve zoned our home, we have only led bulbs, our AGA is only very seldom lit, and weāve had a 5kW wind generator installed and thatās the end of it as far as Iām concerned. We recycle NOTHING. Everything goes into the general rubbish bin and we have no intention of changing any time soon.
Much of our ārecycledā plastic ends up shipped abroad where it ends up in landfill or beaches. More biodegradables are needed. Iām sure they are working on that.
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I try to recycle everything I canā¦although it doesnāt help when each bin gets picked up every 4 weeks!
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Your council doesnāt collect anything?
Every council has a recycling policy. Unfortunately Todger threw the flyer about it in the binā¦ 
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Our recycling is picked up every week and landfill every three weeks. There was talks about the whole of the country going to the same recycling system as ours. Not sure about Scotland though.
Didnāt even look at it. We decided right from the start that we would never sort our refuse. Consider it a point of principle. The most we do is put veg bits onto the compost heap our gardener uses.
Ok, but Iām still struggling to understand what principles of yours, is it that recycling violates?
We are not prepared to sort refuse. Itās beneath our dignity.
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Oh please! You have to be kidding me right?
Some things are not sold loose though, Boot. LIke, in my local Asda, they donāt have loose Grapes, or loose Strawberries, or even lettuce, or tomatoes.
Especially if theyāve just been in the loo! 