How to Freeze Food Without Plastic

Preserving food in the freezer is one of the easiest ways to extend its shelf life. Whether you’re using the freezer storage method for your garden harvest, meal prepping, or parceling out leftovers, it’s a time and money saver. But what if you’re also working on a greener household? Check out these ideas for how to freeze food without plastic.

The Problems With Plastic

In recent memory, the consumers’ go-to for freezing foods has been plastic. But plastic in our world poses so many problems!

• In 2018, landfills received 27 million tons of plastic.
• According to the most recent estimate (2018) by the Environmental Protection Agency, just 8.7% of plastic is actually recycled.
• Microplastics are minuscule pieces of plastic that end up in our environment and can make their way into the human bloodstream.
• Exposure to BPA, a chemical found in plastic, has been implicated in an assortment of health concerns.
• BPS, a chemical used in plastic to replace BPA due to those health concerns, comes with its own set of concerns.

Plastic is insidious in so many products available at the supermarket, but good news! In our own homes, we have the opportunity to reduce the amount of plastic we use in our food storage.

Store Food Without Plastic

Whether you want to store food without plastic for environmental reasons or you’re concerned about possible health implications of freezing food in plastic, these ideas will get you well on the way.