Banana

From the 80s, plastic bags became popular because of its thinness and almost weightless. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene and they are used for many purposes such as medical application, daily groceries carrying. Within the banana supply chain, plastic bags are utilized since the very in many stages for example at the packaging station, the bananas will be packed into cardboard boxes with an inlay of a plastic bag or at the wholesalers, three to five bananas will be wrapped in one plastic bag and the customer at the retailers will buy all those amounts. It is all known that after bananas are consumed, plastic bags will become wasted. There are already a lot of complaint about the overused of plastic bags but because of the particular necessary of using plastic bags at such steps so there are no other options.
However, the problem seems go worse since Del-Monte is to sell individual banana wrapped by one plastic bag. Just some days after the news was released, Del-Monte received many different reactions and almost all of them were about against the “innovation of overwrapped”. Mother Nature already gave bananas their own peels; there is no need for another one. Furthermore, according to Gary Porter, of the Environment Board of the Local Government Association, wholesalers and retailers need to cut back on packaging, not create more. Moreover, even the packaging is recyclable, plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to degrade and remains toxic. So after thousands years, this age will be called “the plastic bags age” because people at that time would find plastic bags as an evidence of life. In addition, it will need more labor or machine work so probably the direct cost will heighten up.
Thus the company needs to find a way to either fulfill their goal of selling their bananas or decrease the usage of plastic bag. There are several options for instance no plastic bags used at all due to the fact that bananas already have quite thick skins. Or banana leaves