A cherry tomato wholesaler from Western Australia is on a mission to wipe out plastic waste. Unsatisfied with plastic tomato packaging, Wally Di Giosaffate reached out to a local packaging company to developing a sustainable packaging alternative for everyone's favourite salad addition.

"There's a lot of grape and cherry tomatoes sold in Australia and that's a hell of lot of plastic," Wally told ABC News.

"It's a good feeling to be one of the first cabs off the rank to do [this]."

After 12 months of trials he is now rolling out cardboard tomato punnets at supermarkets across Perth. The design features a strong cardboard box with ventilation holes in the lid. It is manufactured locally in Perth from 70 per cent recycled cardboard.

Farmers and producers are currently exempt from Western Australia's single-use plastics ban, but the government has committed to working with industry to reduce the use of plastic.

"At this stage, there is no specific target for banning plastics in fresh produce in the future," Environment Minister Reece Whitby said.

"But we are looking down the track, further afield at how we can improve [packaging around fresh produce]. Now I don't know what that looks like, but I'm certainly asking producers and suppliers what they can come up with in the future as an alternative."

Wally's cardboard box solution shows that it is possible to find great alternatives for produce packaging.

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