Should we cut down with the amount of packaging. Environmental issues are of the utmost importance
2006-06-20 05:36:58 · 20 answers · asked by THE ONE 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
without a doubt. Its a disgrace
2006-06-20 05:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by finnykid 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I don't think they package enough, I bought a roast last night and when I picked it up to put it on the counter to pay for it the juices got all over my hand. Gross!!!! I had to ask the girl for some paper towel and glass cleaner to get it off my hands. After all I didn't want it to get all over the next thing I touched, that could cause sickness, (raw meat). So no I don't think they should cut down on packaging. But thats just my opinion.
2006-06-20 12:51:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. There are far too many (cheaper and more hygenic) packagings.
I used to buy vegetables at the greengrocers. I might have accepted a paper bag, but usually they went in the basket I was sent to shop with. Bread we fetched fresh from the bakers ... again in paper (not sliced and often with a hole nibbled out of the side with childish fingers). Meat was delivered from the next village by a boy on a bike with bloodstained paper bags in his basket. Fish came once a week on the back of a horse-drawn flat cart. Flies abounded. We never got sick from eating anything.
I am NOT talking about the 19th Century ... this was 50 years ago only.
2006-06-20 12:48:48 · answer #3 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes yes AND yes! By time they put the meat in those huge packages- theres so much air- so much waisted space and plastic and paper- that I always have to come home and rewrap everything so it will all fit in the freezer! I agree its a total waste and bad for the environment. Not enough people recycle
2006-06-20 13:37:49 · answer #4 · answered by cstinkerbell6969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at a box of cereal with a plastic bag inside! A prime example, why not just have a bag?
Pizza on a sytrofoam tray, shrinkwrapped and then put in a box witha big hole in so you can see what the pizza looks like!!
As for carrier bags?? They should be taxed (like they have just done in Ireland I understand?) toooooo many plastic bags not biodegrading.
2006-06-20 13:08:50 · answer #5 · answered by jonjon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enviromental issues aside- All those boxes and bags & containers are a pain. It is not usually the supermarkets tho' it comes from the manufacture
2006-06-20 12:45:19 · answer #6 · answered by wytch6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they don't. Those flimsy plastic bags that they use don't do much good. Therefore I always ask them to double bag everything. It's better than having shattered glass all over the parking lot when the single bags break, and bottles of things fall to the ground.
2006-06-20 12:41:45 · answer #7 · answered by lynda_is 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah do they ever. I take the meats out of those huge cartons and put it into freezer bags to make room in my freezer. If they got rid of half of the packaging just think how much they could knock of your bill.
2006-06-25 18:07:37 · answer #8 · answered by glo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. I just watched a programme about it. Why on earth do they plastic wrap goods that have their own natural skin? Bananas for instance. Apparently supermarket wrapping only contributes to 1% of the global shrink wrap rubbish dump. I don't believe it.
2006-06-20 16:34:21 · answer #9 · answered by diana - b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the supermarkets, it's the manufacturers. Yes, packaging needs to be reduced.
2006-06-20 12:41:56 · answer #10 · answered by eehco 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree protecting the environment is important, but I think we could start with something other than supermarkets to alleviate the problem!! I think supermarkets would be lower on the list than other threats to the environment!!
2006-06-20 12:41:47 · answer #11 · answered by rockinout 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋