The consumer does have a choice. You can choose to buy your fruit and vegetables without packaging (well most of it). Be vociferous about over-packaging and unnecessary packaging.There are various campaigns eg the ones re in particular plastic bottles. See: Surfers Against Sewage, the Marine Conservation Society, Campaign for Rural England, Greenpeace who were all campaigning about the plastic that is ending up in our rivers, on our beaches and in the oceans. 38 degrees has lots of campaigns. Unless you speak up you will not be heard. Our silence is understood as agreement to all the plastic - especially double-wrapped. There have been changes and improvements in packaging - just one is the tomato puree tube which used to have a box as well. With newspapers - many people no longer buy them - and I would worry that we might lose more newspapers if they do not also get the payments for those advertisements. It would be a shame if they were all online and not good for those who are not internet users. Another problem is that if you empty those bits out in the shop the shop has to pay trade waste collection for it whereas residents pay for their recycling and waste in their Council Tax.Paper newspapers (with supplements) have become a holiday treat for us - and even then we usually don't manage to read it all.
Philippa Bond ● 2868d