I bet Tesco would *love* this

[ramtops]

Shoppers were urged yesterday to take direct action to force supermarkets to cut the excessive and wasteful packaging that goes direct from the shop shelf to the household bin. The environment minister Ben Bradshaw advised food shoppers to leave excessive wrapping at the tills and to report the stores to trading standards in an attempt to cut the amount of unnecessary plastic sent to landfill sites.

story from the Guardian.

I'd love to see it happening, though ...

Comments

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

I do my best to avoid over-packaged products. Which is one reason I *won't* buy food from M&S. I don't want 4 apples (or WHY) shrink wrapped to a foam tray, and covered in sticky labels TYVM. I want to be able to select them myself.

Equally, Waitrose can be bad with some of their packaging - take a look at the packaging of their speciality sausages for example.

Alice.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I get an organic box from Riverford (http://www.riverford.co.uk) every week. Anything that doesn't provide is sourced from a greengrocer. I won't pay for horrible prepacked supermarket veg.

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

Where possible I use greengrocers, or I sometime go to Riverside Organics. However, sometimes it just isn't possible. Which is when the stupormarkets (I should be a little more specific - Waitrose and Sainsbury) get used for greengrocery, they get used for other things anyway.

Alice.