On 03/03/2019 08:24, Brian Gaff wrote:
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.

Vegetables need to be put into something, especially if multiple. (I
don't mind sticking a label on a single courgette.) Supermarkets won't
trust us with paper bags: Tesco (used to) provide paper bags with a
plastic window for mushrooms.

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 plastic trays for fresh meat and fish can't be recycled easily as
they are usually black which is the same colour as the conveyor belts
and have a different plastic for the clear lid.

I need to see what it looks like; not every store has fresh food
counters and the operatives aren't very good at cutting a precise amount
of fish.

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Max Demian