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Products in supermarkets these days are so beautifully presented: bread is wrapped in a plastic bag, biscuits in cardboard boxes, apples on plastic trays. Have you ever bought a product simply because you liked the way it looked? Ask yourself what is more important - the contents or the wrapper!
Yes, we do need packaging. It preserves goods, protects them against damage and makes them presentable to consumers. But there is a high price to pay. Did you know that anything between 10 - 50 % of the price of food today is down to its packaging? Or that packaging makes up 32% of the total weight of solid waste? This is bad news as most packaging is not recyclable, but dumped in landfills or burnt. This results in more pollution, in addition to the pollution caused by the manufacture and transportation of packaging in the first place!
thankfully, supermarkets are now working to cut back. As packages become smaller and lighter, less energy is needed to transport them. Lighter packaging means less waste. However, there is still a long way to go!
So, what's all this got to do with you, the consumer? Well, don't buy products simply because of the way they look! Instead...
• Choose products that use minimal packaging or 'green' packaging that is reusable e.g. glass jars for storing things in, recyclable (look for the recycling symbol!) or biodegradable.
• Avoid individually wrapped foods. Buy in bulk, not in small packages!
• Choose products that come in concentrated form, such as washing powders and fabric softeners, or those that do more than one thing, like shampoo and conditioner in one.
• Take cloth bags to the supermarket instead of asking for more plastic bags, which take around 400 years to break down!
• When large products are delivered to your home, ask manufactures to take back the packaging (bubble wrap, boxes, etc) so they can reuse it.
