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**Diandaplaipsy** · 09-05-2007, 03:30 AM

On a similar front I saw something brilliant last week in our local supermarket. a rather elderly woman was at the check next to me and had decided to follow the governments initiative on trying to reduce excess packaging on produce. Before putting anything into her bags she removed ALL excess packaging at the checkout .So the multipacks of biscuits had all the outer cellophane discarded, as did the fruit/veg which had been put in bags - I am sure you get the picture. It was a wonderfully chaotic scene. The poor woman on the till just sat there in a kind of agreeable bemusement but the supervisor who came across was very peed off at the mess and said as much to the old woman. The reply she got was great - "well if you wish, I can leave and shop elsewhere. Of course you will have to bag all this back up again". The supervisor ( a very officious type of person) promptly left. Delightful.

That's so right that she did that, if only we all took that stance. Unfortunately packaging is necesary for so many reasons, not least to ensure all the things like ingredients and health markings which have to be at a specific size. Wouldn't it be great though to be able to get products that you could bypass this because you had alreay had it before and didn't need to know.

Me and the wife had a brief 'discussion' about the six bags of bags I handed back to the Tesco delivery guy the other day. She was horrifed there were so many and embarrassed. They made the bags! They state they take them back [although the driver registered his unhappiness by saying some drivers are refusing them now] but if they will put one item in one bag it's tuff, they can be responsible for their own waste!

09-05-2007, 03:30 AM	#30
Diandaplaipsy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	On a similar front I saw something brilliant last week in our local supermarket. a rather elderly woman was at the check next to me and had decided to follow the governments initiative on trying to reduce excess packaging on produce. Before putting anything into her bags she removed ALL excess packaging at the checkout .So the multipacks of biscuits had all the outer cellophane discarded, as did the fruit/veg which had been put in bags - I am sure you get the picture. It was a wonderfully chaotic scene. The poor woman on the till just sat there in a kind of agreeable bemusement but the supervisor who came across was very peed off at the mess and said as much to the old woman. The reply she got was great - "well if you wish, I can leave and shop elsewhere. Of course you will have to bag all this back up again". The supervisor ( a very officious type of person) promptly left. Delightful. That's so right that she did that, if only we all took that stance. Unfortunately packaging is necesary for so many reasons, not least to ensure all the things like ingredients and health markings which have to be at a specific size. Wouldn't it be great though to be able to get products that you could bypass this because you had alreay had it before and didn't need to know. Me and the wife had a brief 'discussion' about the six bags of bags I handed back to the Tesco delivery guy the other day. She was horrifed there were so many and embarrassed. They made the bags! They state they take them back [although the driver registered his unhappiness by saying some drivers are refusing them now] but if they will put one item in one bag it's tuff, they can be responsible for their own waste!
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