I my experience, certain things like peppers really benefit from being in a plastic bag. I usually wrap those items in cloth, and then put them in a plastic bag. Same thing with cucumbers, but I put a piece of tin foil over the cut end, since I rarely use a whole cucumber quickly. I also put cut citrus in plastic bags. I will say though that it may make certain items spoil faster if you don’t also wrap them in a cloth since the bag traps moisture. For some items though, if they’re better sealed in some kind of vessel, you might be able to try using Tupperware as a compromise, since Tupperware/jars are much easier to wash on a regular basis.

I’m in the process of finding ways of reducing how much waste I produce myself, and am somewhat early on in the process. But plastic bags have definitely been difficult for me to cut out in some some instances. Tupperware and jars are the solution I’m trying to increasingly move over to where possible.

You may also find it useful to look into the specifically reusable bags, as those may be easier to clean and dry, or wax paper, which functionally a bit like cling wrap, and is another way of sealing things if you find a certain kinds of produce benefits from that.

You may also find it worthwhile to do some little experiments where you store some of a given kind of produce multiple ways, since that could really help inform what works best for you in the future. It would mean taking up more space, so you’d probably only wanna try one produce with two storage methods at a time, but it might yeild interesting and useful results, while also potentially reducing any social unease from not trusting that one storage method is good enough- I know for me sometimes habit or the way I’m used to doing things can be hard to break.