It seems that some common sense is starting to take hold in the debate about over packaging of many items that we buy from food to consumer goods.
Dating back to 1960’s legislation which is still in place today governing a wide variety of foods including cereal, butter, sugar and rice to be packaged in specified quantities, new legislation will allow consumers to benefit on many fronts. For once it seems that we, the consumer will be benefit from food suppliers abilities to package goods in much more sensibly sized packaging. with out the need to standardize on previously required sizes.
However, this new legislation has to be welcomed with some degree of concern as this may add to increased packaging!! With that in mind over 180 MP’s have signed a commons motion condemning the ‘over use of packaging by manufactures and retailers”, and Lib Demo MP Joe Swinson has proposed a Bill to force supermarkets to provide waste bins for shoppers to leave behind all the surplus packaging before they return home!
I wonder how the supermarkets will react to this, coupled with the potential ban on supermarket plastic bags it looks like we are starting to head towards a less wasteful future and a small contribution to saving the earths dwindling resources.
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