Way to go, bravo, Brits!

[DRSB]

"British regulations on excess packaging first took effect in 2003 in an effort to reduce waste, particularly items that cannot be recycled and go into a landfill. Those rules, strengthened two years ago in response to environmental concerns and an awareness that the nation’s landfills were reaching their limits, now require that producers keep packaging to the minimum required for “products’ safety, hygiene and consumer acceptance.”

"Specifically, the Lincolnshire County Council sued the Sainsbury’s supermarket chain for “excessive packaging” of its Taste the Difference Slow Matured Ultimate Beef Roasting Joint, which costs nearly $9 per pound, after receiving consumer complaints. No matter that the meat was a “luxury” item, the council said: the way it was packaged — plastic-wrapped atop a PET tray under a clear plastic cover and then swathed in a fetching cardboard sleeve — violated British law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/scien ... e.html?hpw

[Millefleur]

I've never trusted heavily packaged meat, or veg I can't fondle.

[Rum]

I've never trusted heavily packaged meat, or veg I can't fondle.

You can fondle my veg any time you like.

[Millefleur]

That sounded rude but I was being genuine I hate over packaged food in the supermarkets, like tomatoes or avocado in plastic boxes - you'd need to be able to squidge them goddammit And sweaty plastic wrapped meat in plastic trays with those 'orrible sanitary pad type thingies under them

[Pappa]

I've never trusted heavily packaged meat, or veg I can't fondle.

Sigworthy.

[Millefleur]

I do need a new one now the decorating is done but I don't think I can sig myself, it'll break the lwaz of the interwebs or summit

[charlou]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

[maiforpeace]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

We could definitely use more of these regulations here as well. And though Santa Cruz county is also on the slow boat in this regard, we have banned styrofoam to go (takeaway) containers - a step in the right direction. We are also quite vigilant about recycling, particularly the hazardous stuff, and have a really good community program to promote composting.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

We could definitely use more of these regulations here as well. And though Santa Cruz county is also on the slow boat in this regard, we have banned styrofoam to go (takeaway) containers - a step in the right direction. We are also quite vigilant about recycling, particularly the hazardous stuff, and have a really good community program to promote composting.

Remember when CDs came in boxes two feet long?

[maiforpeace]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

We could definitely use more of these regulations here as well. And though Santa Cruz county is also on the slow boat in this regard, we have banned styrofoam to go (takeaway) containers - a step in the right direction. We are also quite vigilant about recycling, particularly the hazardous stuff, and have a really good community program to promote composting.

Remember when CDs came in boxes two feet long?

Indeed.

Soon CD's will be obsolete.

[Trolldor]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

We could definitely use more of these regulations here as well. And though Santa Cruz county is also on the slow boat in this regard, we have banned styrofoam to go (takeaway) containers - a step in the right direction. We are also quite vigilant about recycling, particularly the hazardous stuff, and have a really good community program to promote composting.

Remember when CDs came in boxes two feet long?

Indeed.

Soon CD's will be obsolete.

That's what they said about Vinyl.

[JimC]

We could use regulations like that here. Disgraceful wastage in every area of retail.

Agreed. But, for any veg we can't grow ouselves, we go to the local veg & fruit place, or farmer's markets, and take our own bags to put the produce (displayed in open boxes) in. We try to get local stuff, mostly (making the obvious exception for bananas & mangos from the north )

It's hard not to get stuff without excess packaging in non-food areas, though...)