Don't even get me started on packaging!! When I think of how supermarket foods are double and treble wrapped. What a tremendous waste - and so much of it is plastic or not easily recyclable materials. I realise why they do it (hygiene and food preservation so stuff doesn't get too broken) but is it really necessary? If you buy pre-packed fruit, it usually comes in a polystyrene type tray, and is then covered with clingfilm. If supermarkets were made to use paper bags, instead of plasticm we could hand-select individual items and carry them in our paper bags in the safe knowledge that we weren't wasting all that packaging. Let's face it, most of us simply strip away the packaging and chuck it in the bin. (Except for my Dad, who keeps the clingfilm off things like mushrooms and uses it again! He is truly conscientious!) |