Great but would they not be better getting the packaging reduced to start with? they could make a huge start in that.
Agreed. But in the mean time I'll carry on with my own little protest, as soon as I pass through checkout after paying I remove all the excess packaging and leave it there.
The Rambler
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Gender: Location: Galway Age: 50 Posts: 2346 Registered: 07 / 2017 My Motorhome: Base Vehicle: Vauxhall Movano 2.5 CDTI
Great but would they not be better getting the packaging reduced to start with? they could make a huge start in that.
That is the only way to tackle this. It has to come top down. From government and multinationals. Putting the onus on consumers to recycle will never fix the problem. We need laws that say come up with an alternative to plastic.
killiand
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Gender: n/a Location: Meath Age: 33 Posts: 870 Registered: 09 / 2015 My Motorhome: Knaus Traveller S520 Base Vehicle: Fiat Ducato (1993)
Saw it in lidl last week, great initiative. To be fair I presume they source suppliers based on price and therefore accept packaging as part of what they receive. If we shopped there regularly wed have a fair bit less rubbish in the house!
hillton9
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Gender: Location: Crossgar Age: 67 Posts: 2909 Registered: 07 / 2013 My Motorhome: Rollerteam t-line 740 Base Vehicle: Fiat muiltijet
McDonald’s have been doing that for a few years now when you finish your meal you separate it into different places,I know a lot of people don’t like McDonald’s but everything you get your food or drink in is recyclable pity the people who get carry outs throw it out of there cars along the road
Ally
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Gender: Location: Muckamore, Antrim Age: 55 Homepage:motorhomecraic.com Posts: 32600 Registered: 08 / 2011 My Motorhome: Lunar Roadstar 780 Base Vehicle: Fiat 2.8 JTD
Thinking of waste and living at the distance from town of eating a carryout and chucking it out the window,I appreciate the people who go out for free on saturday and keep the roadside clean. One of the things that is overlooked is glass,a fully recycleable packaging, thing like salt, pepper etc that all come in plastic containers. I know it is heavier but it will not float around the oceans for a lifetime.
ntg
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Gender: Location: Portglenone. Co Antrim Age: 24 Posts: 3822 Registered: 04 / 2012 My Motorhome: Autotrail Base Vehicle: Comanche
We live approx 9 miles from Ballymena and believe that to be about the driving time required to eat a KFC or a Mcdonalds.
The reason I say that is these food packaging are regularly discarded on our road.
Eamonn
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Gender: Location: Shankill, Dublin 18 Age: 65 Homepage:Webmail.ie Posts: 513 Registered: 06 / 2016 My Motorhome: Autotrail Cheyenne Base Vehicle: Fiat Ducato
Discarding packaging or "Waste" as some people are now calling it has a number of drawbacks.
You lose
1 Proof of purchase
2 No information on Expiry / best before date.
3 Country of Origin
4 Producer information
5 List of ingredients
6 Breakdown of contents.
It's a retailers dream as you have no proof that the product you have is the product they sold you.
Gavster
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Gender: Location: Newry, Co Down Age: 45 Posts: 1000 Registered: 11 / 2016 My Motorhome: LMC Liberty 630R (LHD) Base Vehicle: Fiat Ducato 2.5 TD
We get home deliveries so are rarely in a supermarket but sometimes they still put some items, especially meat inside extra plastic bags!
I helped out with an annual Tidy NI survey once to statistically see which towns where the tidiest - litter wise etc. A huge amount of the litter could only have come from people in cars. Cigarette butts were among the most common (didn’t even count chewing gum) but unlike plastic I assume they biodegrade eventually at least. Not saying it is ok to fire cigarette butts away of course.
The Rambler
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Gender: Location: Galway Age: 50 Posts: 2346 Registered: 07 / 2017 My Motorhome: Base Vehicle: Vauxhall Movano 2.5 CDTI
Discarding packaging or "Waste" as some people are now calling it has a number of drawbacks.
You lose
1 Proof of purchase
2 No information on Expiry / best before date.
3 Country of Origin
4 Producer information
5 List of ingredients
6 Breakdown of contents.
It's a retailers dream as you have no proof that the product you have is the product they sold you.
I operate on the principle that I only buy what's in the package, so when it is taken out to be used the packaging is bagged and returned to the Supermarket on the next trip. I have never actually had a bin.
The courier
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Gender: n/a Location: limerick Age: 57 Posts: 19 Registered: 01 / 2018 My Motorhome: dethleffs Base Vehicle: Fiat
Shopping baskets and shopping trollies are full of germs . . Unless shops clean their trolleys correctly we will die from the germ we pick up on trolleys and shopping baskets . I use to come out in rashes becaused I used shopping trolleys
ntg
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Gender: Location: Portglenone. Co Antrim Age: 24 Posts: 3822 Registered: 04 / 2012 My Motorhome: Autotrail Base Vehicle: Comanche
Shopping baskets and shopping trollies are full of germs . . Unless shops clean their trolleys correctly we will die from the germ we pick up on trolleys and shopping baskets . I use to come out in rashes becaused I used shopping trolleys
While one can only have sympathy with your condition surely the human race is going to destroy itself.
There are so many forms of cleansing these days that our immune systems are becoming weaker and weaker.
We cannot all be wrapped in a capsule 24hrs a day.
nilrac
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Gender: Location: Inishowen Co Donegal Age: 86 Posts: 694 Registered: 10 / 2012 My Motorhome: Base Vehicle:
Got to agree with you NGT, Believe it or not we are getting too clean and weakening our immune system, As a child we played in the street, ran the fields and scrumped the orchards. Being as it was wartime ,second hand clothes were worn till there was no life left in them or passed on if there was. But thank God I am still here almost 82 to tell the tale.
panda
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Gender: Location: Wicklow Town Age: 58 Posts: 3057 Registered: 08 / 2014 My Motorhome: Concerto 255 Base Vehicle: Fiat Ducato 9 spd Auto
The amount of different cleaning products and all sorts of wipes my wife buys is unbelievable! When I was single a bottle of cheap washing up liquid took care of everything from dishes to showers
sprinter
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Gender: Location: Co Wicklow Age: 92 Posts: 7423 Registered: 01 / 2015 My Motorhome: Matilda 2 Pilote 703FP Explorateur Base Vehicle: 3ltr 318 Sprinter Automatic
The amount of different cleaning products and all sorts of wipes my wife buys is unbelievable! When I was single a bottle of cheap washing up liquid took care of everything from dishes to showers
Well maybe if you had used a bit more in the past you're long suffering wife would not have to use so much now to get you clean.
( you walked straight into that one soorrrry )
panda
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Gender: Location: Wicklow Town Age: 58 Posts: 3057 Registered: 08 / 2014 My Motorhome: Concerto 255 Base Vehicle: Fiat Ducato 9 spd Auto
The amount of different cleaning products and all sorts of wipes my wife buys is unbelievable! When I was single a bottle of cheap washing up liquid took care of everything from dishes to showers
Well maybe if you had used a bit more in the past you're long suffering wife would not have to use so much now to get you clean.
( you walked straight into that one soorrrry )
Hook, line and sinker!
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