Dino DiLaudo stands beside a conveyor belt stacked with freshly grown cucumbers plucked from leafy, green vines that drape down from the glass ceiling of a nearby greenhouse.

These cucumbers are about to go through a treatment process that will eliminate millions of tonnes of single-use plastic from the supply chain. 

“We’ve gone from one of the most complained about items in the produce aisle to now a completely plastic-free cucumber,” said DiLaudo, vice-president of sales and marketing at Westmoreland Topline Farms.

This week the Leamington, Ontario grower will be the first in the country to ship English cucumbers that are not individually plastic wrapped to