To wish supermarkets would not wrap cucumbers in plastic?

[wildfellhall]

Let alone all the other veg.

I would like to shop in Aldi more often but it's a massive plastic festival. If an aubergine can be unwrapped - why not a cucumber?

My local market sells both the long and baby cucumbers without plastic wrapping.

Neither seem to go bad in my fridge quickly.

That's the point of supermarket plastic bag recycling. All the plastic film that can't be recycled in our normal household , goes to supermarket.

Look it up and you'll be surprised what you can recycle .

The things that can be recycled with bags say "recycle with bags at supermarkets" and I take all of those (plus a few other things which are the same but unlabelled). Cucumber label (and website) says "film not currently recycled".

I hate that too.

In France, where my partner lives, cucumbers are never wrapped in plastic and keep just fine.

I don't mind the cucumber wrap but currently have an Apple issue. I don't have a huge selection of shops to choose from but over the last few years they all seem to sell plastic packs of apples rather than loose and these contain maybe two ripe apples. Some are so green they are never eatable. I would love to do the green grocer or market thing but work means I can't usually do this. I just want to buy ripe or nearly ripe fruit with minimal plastic.

Probably the variety. As others had said home grown have much thicker skins. The Tesco ones very thin.

Being grown purely for high yield fast results on something that’s imported a lot of the year vs good quality from a greengrocer working with a local Yet still big greenhouse grower.

But the plastic does make it easier to remove the forgotten cucumber at the back of the veg drawer 🫣

True, the long ones in the market are thick skinned.

Also true!

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/so-this-is-why-cucumbers-have-to-be-wrapped-in-plastic_uk_66cdab35e4b09c9ffeaf8065

That type of plastic is recyclable at some supermarkets. Our local Sainsbury's has a big bin for it and I've seen one outside Waitrose as well.