Peas and Degradation

As May comes in with a hey nonny nonny, I know that those of you kind enough to peruse these pages, may be imagining me decking my smock with spring blooms and unwrapping my Birkenstocks for the summer ahead. I mean as some kind of earth goddess who loves nothing better than weaving yogurt while a pot of free trade, organic lentils bond themselves into a healthsome stew on the wood fuelled stove.
Sadly not true. Dinner time finds me attacking the glacier that has taken up residence in our freezer in an attempt to liberate food, any kind of food, from its icy grasp.
Frozen food is important to us and I am particularly partial to frozen peas.
Sad to say plastic is rather important to frozen food .
Imagine then my whoops of joy ( I am inordinately fond of peas) when I saw the coop wrap much of its frosty goodness in degradable packaging
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Degradable to me sounds much like biodegradable.
I could have let it go.
But I didn’t - degradable does not mean biodegradable.
It means plastic particles stuck together with biodegradable glue. Sure it breaks down faster, much faster, than conventional plastic but still into tiny invisible plastic particles - it is still basically plastic.
Good from a litter point of view but not so good from a no plastic point of veiw.
So I have banned dgradable plastic from my life and this month I said good bye to frozen peas.