Plastic wrap is most often referring to industrial plastic wrap for securing pallets or food-grade plastic wrap. Food plastic wrap, also known as cling film, food wrap, and saran wrap, is a thin plastic film commonly used for sealing and securing food items in containers to keep fresh.

A spokesperson for Saran Wrap agrees that plastic wrap is indeed safe to use in the microwave when used as directed. Follow these tips and you'll have perfectly cooked food in the blink of an eye: To vent excess steam, turn back one corner of the wrap.

Is It Safe to Cook With Plastic Wrap? Experts Weight In. As it turns out, most experts agree that you safely can put plastic wrap in the oven or heat it by other means (cooking sous vide, for example)—but only at low temperatures.

On the other hand, ordinary plastic bags take 10-20 years to disintegrate, whereas plastic bottles take 450 years. Cling wrap is no different to most plastics and can take anywhere from 10 yeas or hundreds of years to decompose.