Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

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Take a plastic shopping bag and stuff it horizontally into the tissue box with the handles sticking out of the slit on top.

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Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering shoppers for years and supermarkets have responded by ...

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