Well, for a start most of my milk still comes in glass bottles because its
delivered. The problem with glass is that its heavy to transport of course
and it has to be cleaned every round trip.
Cartons are now recyclable it seems so I do that, as with cans and plastic
food containers.
The problem with recycling is that sadly the same carton cannot be cleaned
and sterilised, it needs to be melted down into something to make something
else and there seems a finite number of times you can do this, probably more
energy hungry than sterilising a bottle , but I've never seen a comparison.
Paper bags are fine, and still with us of course but they are a pain if you
walk to do your shopping and its raining.


I personally think the pre packed food with plastic over it is probably
extremely wasteful also they fill the package with gas of some kind to help
preserve the contents.

The universe likes to make disorder from order and this is why there is so
much plastic around the environment. Its not good, but what can we do, the
cat is out of the bag so to speak.
Brian

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When I was a young man, a long time ago, bottles were glass and bags were
paper. Why cant the supermarkets revert to those? Bottles were returned
and paper used to light our fires. Then we moved to gas (mainly) central
heating, Now that is a no no. Incidentally what will happen to the
businesses that primarily sell gas appliances? Will they be compensated?