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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Strawberry shields forever bioplastic cuts fruit waste - Caught on Camera

Luigi Vandi and Vincent Mathel hope bioplastic punnets can shake up the future of food packaging. (HANDOUT/UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND)

Strawberries come packaged with a hidden environmental toll in Australia: a lot of clear plastic that does not get recycled.

But researchers from the University of Queensland have developed a different way to keep the fruit safe while ensuring biodegradable punnets can return to the farms from which they came.

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