After doing my darndest to reduce my family's use of plastics when it comes to food storage, I must admit, I still have and use plastic food storage containers. Call it Tupperware, plasticware, Rubbermaid, Glad lock, take-a-longs, whatever you like. I bet most American households have some sort of plastic food storage products. And I would even feel fairly confident in stating that most of us probably have more than just a "few" pieces.
(In fact, I have a suspicion that this stuff magically multiplies at night when nobody's looking-- lids begetting lids, running amok never again to be matched up with their bases!)
But back to the issue at hand. Why do we use plastic for food storage?
