Plastic Packaging... and Why I'm Writing About This Here
By Rosemary Johnson Don’t you get fed up with the amount of plastic packaging that comes your way every day? To the right is what my husband and myself threw away after just one lunch at home. (Okay, we didn’t eat all the olive and sundried tomatoes ourselves and that lunchtime. W e had had guests and consumed them over several days - honestly!) But the point is why so much food sold in plastic and sellophane packaging? Companies which deliver organic fruit and vegetables, such as Riverford Organic Farmers , manage to pack their goods in one cardboard box, without damaging any of the produce - and the delivery driver picks up the box when he calls again next week and reuses it. The same thing happens with milk deliveries, and those of us who are old enough will remember glass bottles of pop for which you received 3d on returning the bottle to the shop. The Guardian reported, in April of this year, that the major supermark...