Unnecessary supermarket plastic – why bother?

The UK’s biggest retailers need to set a shining example to us all when it comes to recycling and plastic in particular but cases like the following show work needs to done…

A somewhat gallant attempt to swap cake and biscuits for fruit at our head office has resulted in the purchase of many apples, grapes, kiwi fruits and oranges.

It was strange to see kiwi fruits packaged in plastic in a major UK supermarket recently however it was the only option – not thinking too much into it, they were purchased.

Today, after glancing at the packaging it clearly states that this plastic is non-recyclable, meaning it has to go in a general waste bin and to a landfill site.

What is the point? This plastic will now contaminate a landfill site for decades. Anybody would happily purchase loose kiwi fruits, they are well protected by a brown furry shell after all.

A fine example of our big retailers not doing enough, at a time they should be leading the way.

Think of the thousands of households buying plastic packaged kiwi fruits and not being able to recycle it – why bother?

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