How reusable beeswax food wraps can reduce food waste and plastic pollution

Rethink plastic waste is an initiative to save the oceans. Doesn’t it sometimes seem like we have forgotten that we are humans living on planet Earth? That’s about as fundamental as it gets when it comes to explaining our existence. Yet, many of our actions have caused so much harm to our planet, that aliens observing us from far away must be baffled and asking themselves; “Why are these people destroying their home?”.

The environment is in peril.

Greta Thunberg sparked a worldwide movement with her "school strike for climate change" outside the Swedish parliament. In more recent times however, the movement raging towards trying to mitigate the climate crisis has certainly prompted change. More and more individuals are starting to ask themselves “what can I do?”. Not all of us can skip school and strike outside the parliament, right? There are so many problems to tackle, but where to begin?

Keep things simple and just start from home. Experiment to find the right recipe on what works best for you. Start by establishing your own food waste and plastic management systems. Take a look inside your fridge. Do you see any dried out fruit, moldy cheese and rock-solid bread? Now just walk around your home. Do you see any plastic haphazardly lying around?   

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What's the difference between food waste and food loss?

Food waste is third on the list created by Project Drawdown, a fantastically put together organization that tackles the climate conundrum with gusto. First, understand that food loss and food waste are two different things. Second, ask yourself whether you are contributing to food waste, why this is happening, and what you can do to remedy it.  

Have you ever wondered why even when you wrap your food in cling film, it ends up soggy (or more or less dead-looking) before you come back to turn it into a smoothie? It’s because plastic suffocates your food. Even human skin has itty bitty pores that allow sweat to seep through so we can cool down when it gets too hot. Food has a similar mechanism. It needs to breathe too!

We definitely do not know how to manage all this plastic waste.

Plastic Pollution Life Cycle

Look, there is nothing essentially wrong with plastic in itself. We are just extremely incompetent in figuring out what to do with it once we don’t need it anymore. What we throw in a bin, ends up in a landfill, then into the ocean which gets eaten by the fish and ultimately eaten by us. So in a nutshell, our mismanagement of plastic is invariably leading to us eating… trash!  

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Food banks are a great way to avoid food waste. But what about simpler individual actions one can take? We have cleared that wrapping your food in plastic does not really work and we know that beeswax contains antibacterial properties that prevent your food from becoming a home for microorganisms in a way cling film and plastic containers could only ever dream of.

So, to wrap up…