Food waste and food packaging
Fruit, especially expensive fruit, is now often sold in little foam sleeves.
Before you get too upset about this practice, though, think about the amount of energy it takes to grow and transport a banana to your local grocery store. If the banana gets damaged, it’s going into the waste stream uneaten, as does about half of the food in the US, according to a study by Timothy Jones of the University of Arizona. [Link via the hyper-specialized Wasted Food blog. I am so happy that there is a wasted food blog.]