In addition to trying to buy unpackaged fruit and veg at the supermarket (harder than you might think) or the local greengrocer (a bit more successful), we get a weekly veg box (and a fruit box). Very little in the box comes in packaging. The cherry tomatoes you can see peeping through are in a cardboard punnet, and mushrooms come that way as well and a lot of the soft fruit comes in punnets - mostly cardboard, even the blueberries now, though the lids are still plastic. It's getting there. Otherwise, there's not a lot of packaging - potatoes come in a paper bag to help reduce the spread of dirt, and salad leaves (though not whole lettuces) still come in a plastic bag. Compared to what you'd get in the supermarket, it's a big improvement. The large cardboard boxes are reusable and are collected back each week when a new delivery comes. They claim to use them ten times, but personally, I bet they are good for many more deliveries than that.
The farmers' market offers most of its fruit and veg unpackaged - and even where punnets are used (e.g. the sprouts and new potatoes shown at the front of this photo) aren't given to you in the punnet - when sold, they'll tip them into a paper bag (or your own bag, if you like).
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