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[Bionic]

Anyone noticed just how much extra of the now ubiquitous plastic, non-biodegradable packaging there has been used to pack both gifts and foodstuffs this year? For instance I bought a small Fillet beef joint and the plastic container it came in could have held five of them and still have space around them! Even the box of crackers was a nightmare to get into.
Ever tried to crush the empty containers to make space in your rubbish/recycle bin? Its virtually impossible cos they just spring back into form.
If the government really want us to recycle and act responsibly to the environment then why do they not act and bring back paper wrapping and ban totally the use of all non biodegradable plastic packaging? Most of it is maked as 'not sitable for re-cycling' or the local authority will not accept it as such on collection days.
We already have 5 recycle bins (there are plans for more too) for different things and still there is lots of stuff that still go to landfill.
Has anyone took the time to smell meat when it comes out of plastic wrapping? It smells bad and you cannot seriously expect me to believe that 'it will soon lose its smell when it is introduced to air' and stiil not be bad! If it smells bad then it is bad in my book and that is the way our predecessors used to test their food was it not?
Sell by dates were introduced for our 'food safety' and now they are to be discontinued because too much is being wasted.
Is this comedy ever going to end?
Freeks sake government!!!!!!!
Before you lose all respect you need to get a sodding grip of your seat polishing, paper shuffling, pension greedy, know all yet know nothing, fantasy world living idiots who all proclaim to be experts! My old granny knew more and had more common sense than the lot of them. 

[Varche]

Blame it on the consumer driven marleting led society we live in.

Stuff looks more appealing in all that packaging and thus you are more likely to buy.

And there is the conflict. If the government pass laws to reduce packaging then their mates in big business potentially lose out, thousands of marketing folk would lose their jobs as people collected their purchases in bags they carry or in paper at the butchers. No it wouldn't do. Expect more packaging in the futuire not less. We need those marketing boys to pay tax to pay off the debt

You only realise just how much packaging and waste there is when you have to take it from your property some distance to bins.

[Tony H]

I know what you meen. My pet hate is the welded blister packs that you can't open without destroying with a knife or scissors. It makes it very difficult to re pack and return to the shop for a refund if the purchase was wrong. Or maybe that is the manufactures "hidden agenda"

[the alarming man]

the reason everything is hard to get out of packets is.....the thieving scum that go into shops take goods out of packets and put it straight into their pockets without paying...the thought behind it is if goods are in their boxes they are harder to hide

[Marks DTM Calib]

Dont forget that everything also has to be shipped half way around the world in containers and arrive in one piece

[Vamps]

I find that Children's toys are the worst, particularly for younger children, when you get past the huge amount of cardboard and plastic you then find you need a screw driver and a set of wire cutter's......why, it cant be to keep the child safe when you have wire and small screws........

[Bionic]

 
Even when you weigh up all of those 'excuses' it still does not give a rational reason for the sheer amount of it. There are forms of plastic that are re-cyclable so why not use it? Most superstores now use bio-degradable carrier bags so why not extend that? As for the heavy blister pack welded seamed plastic which cuts you when trying to open it and its supposed protection against thieves well there are types of cardboard that cannot be torn and are just as hard to cut with a blade. The only one that makes any sense is the comment about the packaging used for childrens toys. Common sense dictates that that should be as safe as it can possibly be because opening the box and getting to the contents is part of the fun for them. What small child can use wire cutters or blades?
No to plastic, bring back paper based wrapping that is fully recyclable and therefore environment friendly and the expansion of that paper goods market would also absorb the labour previously used in the manufacture of the plastic environmentally unfriendly crap. Bearing in mind that it was the plastic market that eroded the paper manufacturing market in the first place it would be poetic justice for it to be reversed. Nothing to lose apart from the plastic and all to gain for the planet. How can the planet be 'saved' when this plastic pollution is allowed to continue to expand? 

[ianu]

 What small child can use wire cutters or blades?

..I think it depends what country you live in