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Your sticks of butter come wrapped in plastic?

I don't think I've ever seen anything other than wax paper or foil, with only tubs of butter, rather than sticks, in plastic.

njtransit 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Up until earlier this year, many "grease proof" papers (e.g. butter wrappers) were PFAS.

PFAS aren't plastics.

And removing them clearly didn't increase the price of sticks of butter by $5.

	▲	atombender 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of plastic containers use fluorine-treated plastic [1], resulting in the creation of PFAS. The fluorine is used to strengthen the plastic and make it less permeable. > Since EPA released its investigation, we have learned the disturbing fact that the fluorination of plastic is commonly used to treat hundreds of millions of polyethylene and polypropylene containers each year ranging from packaged food and consumer products that individuals buy to larger containers used by retailers such as restaurants to even larger drums used by manufacturers to store and transport fluids. [1] https://blogs.edf.org/health/2021/07/07/beyond-paper-pfas/

SoftTalker 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot of "butter" spreads are sold in plastic tubs.