It never fails to amaze me just how much packaging is used in the sale of different items brought from supermarkets, especially in fruit.


We are all told how important it is to recycle and to stop sending rubbish to landfill sites in the UK.
However when it comes to throwing away these used packages, hardly any of them are recyclable and end up in our normal black bins.


I can fully understand that for hygiene and logistical reasons that a certain amount of packaging needs to be used but surely we should be able to give back this material, back to the supermarkets – so that they can dispose of them for us?


Google “Germany's packaging take-back law”.


If this can be done and brought into law in Germany – why not in the UK?


I shall use my sceptical head and hazard a guess that it’s because the packaging /supermarket industries have very good lobbyists and have the ear of the UK Government and keep this from happening for as long as they can until public opinion pushes the Government of the day to do the same as German.


How sad is that?


I am the food shopped in my household and I see no problem with taking back the packaging material to my supermarket for them to dispose of.


Why are we so slow on the take up of these types of initiative in this Country?

 

Would you be happy to return back this material to the shops?