European Union lawmakers and member states have reached a deal to revise the bloc's waste shipment regulation and end exports of certain types of waste to third countries unable to process it properly, the EU Parliament said on Friday.
Is there another option available though? When was the last time you saw a loaf of bread sold in anything other than a plastic bag?
While the consumer does bear responsibility in what theh choose to purchase, we cannot shift the blame for the entire product and it’s packaging onto them unless there are truly viable alternatives.
Put a recycling charge directly onto the manufacturer so that those with the ability to make real change are the ones bearing the cost of not doing so.
But yeah, most stuff is in plastic. AFAIK, most plastic can be recycled, but not into the same plastic in the same way that metal and glass can. And often it just gets exported for processing, and then gets thrown in a landfill somewhere poor.
In Germany, (pre-)sliced bread generally comes in plastic. Bakeries use paper bags, supermarkets use similar bags with transparent windows (so that cashiers can see inside) and they, too, are plastic, not cellophane. They might be compostable or something though I bet a lot of them are ending up in paper waste.
Is there another option available though? When was the last time you saw a loaf of bread sold in anything other than a plastic bag?
While the consumer does bear responsibility in what theh choose to purchase, we cannot shift the blame for the entire product and it’s packaging onto them unless there are truly viable alternatives.
Put a recycling charge directly onto the manufacturer so that those with the ability to make real change are the ones bearing the cost of not doing so.
Warburton’s bread is sold in paper.
But yeah, most stuff is in plastic. AFAIK, most plastic can be recycled, but not into the same plastic in the same way that metal and glass can. And often it just gets exported for processing, and then gets thrown in a landfill somewhere poor.
I constantly buy bread in paper bags, I don’t know what you are on about.
In Germany, (pre-)sliced bread generally comes in plastic. Bakeries use paper bags, supermarkets use similar bags with transparent windows (so that cashiers can see inside) and they, too, are plastic, not cellophane. They might be compostable or something though I bet a lot of them are ending up in paper waste.