What are the coffee bags made of? Plain paper? Or are they lined with thin plastic? My husband can go through a large can of coffee in two weeks! We’d go broke trying to keep him in specialty coffees, even if our local store offered the beans and the grinder…which it doesn’t.
It used to be the coffee containers were made of metal. They were great for storing old cooking grease in. They’re plastic now, but they can be recycled, which kind of goes to the crux of my question, which I realize I didn’t specify, which was how to reduce the plastic foot print in the landfills. Plastic never decomposes.
I don’t think most of us realize how many things wind up in plastic, even if it’s kind of hidden. If it’s not at the store, it’s what we put it in when we get home, to freeze it. Nothing beats plastic for keep things from getting stale.
It seems like sooner or later everything ends up in plastic. It’s not like the days when the mom walked to the market and good all the food for their meals for that day.
I guess I could by 5 or 6 of those cloth sacks though, and use them for fruits and veggies and the peanuts they have out in a big bin once a year, because, obviously, I don’t freeze those.
Other than that, I just don’t know how to get away from plastic.