We really really really encourage you to buy food and eat it right away. However, if you must get a head of lettuce and stretch it out a week, we encourage use of Biobags. These bags allow the food to breathe, keeping food fresh for longer periods. And, since they're made out of corn, they're biodegradable. Can't say the same for plastic, now can you?
We first saw these at our neighborhood natural foods store, Lifethyme, and have since seen them at Whole Foods as well. Treehugger did a little review of the bags a while back, which is where we learned you can now order the company's full line of bags (food scrap, trash, pet waste...) online at Drugstore.com.
So now when you forget about that head of lettuce for longer than even the Biobag can preserve it, you can just toss the whole thing into your compost (or second choice, trash bin) guilt-free.
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Szig, I agree we need to make a bigger effort to grow corn in a more concious way, however this is a renewable resource, and in my opinion a renewable resource is always better than a non-renewable one such as petroleum. The way I see going green is that you can make yourself absolutely bonkers trying to figure out which is worse and where everything comes from, if it's really bad or not that bad. You can hike up to the woods and live like a bear, or we can slowly work to raise our consciousness and the consciousness of our peers. I think bioplastic is a tremendous step in the right direction.