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Interesting - Packaging waste
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Tuesday October 23, 2007 10:44 by Dave
Under-packaging is an "order of magnitude worse" than over-packaging Food waste levels are shocking but no-one is doing more to reduce them than the packaging industry, reports packaging industry body Incpen. Supermarkets and their suppliers are reducing packaging but, more importantly they are making sure they use enough packaging to help stop food waste which is a much bigger problem. |
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Jump To Comment: 1I think this is very interesting, thank you for the article. It reminds me of when people tried to bring back their waste packaging to the point of sale (supermarket or manufacturers) arguing quite rightly that they just want to buy the product or food not all the crap. Although admittedly scared of making a fool myself I hazard to suppose people don't want widgets in their champagne six packs. I never touch the stuff. It is hard to accept a few dollops of mousturiser cream really need all the plastic & cardboard. You'd get three types of cardboard in those yokes ranging from the corrugated variety which though good for lighting fires would be very costly to stock up on at the same rate you stave off the wrinkles to other stuff laminated in colours you only should see on tv. Oh it makes me rant. We could of course cut out the packaging on those expensive runners the television presenters wear. Maybe the government could invite over a share of sweatshop small businesses and be a bit leniant on the appropriately trained guest workers green card requirements. That would be great & you'd see wonderful spin-off benefits, for no man nor woman should stray far from their cobbler. But when you think about it we can't all go to neighbourhood food depots with our own receptacles and bowls. We're all too dirty & though it me pains to write an obituary on what could have been a revolutionary global change in utilities, I think we must accept Tupperware has its limits as long as we're not in a natural disaster situation. The UN should send tupperware to victims of earthwquakes & start the ecology slowly in foreign places. These are the sort of ideas the Greens should be putting forward now they're in power, we need ideas. Why can't we show these third world countries how to make their own yoghurts & mousturisers? After all as long as they use different packaging the more time we have as a sustainable planetary system. At the end of the day it's all about ensuring poverty lasts. But we can package it better. You have your tupperware water proof plastic container & i've got my wrinkle cream.