WHAT IS PACKAGING?
Packaging is around us every day. We continuously consume cardboard packaging and plastic lining, which covers our cereal. When eating lunch, we’re potentially poisoning our environment by purchasing plastic wrapping which protects the bread we eat from crumbling. Finally, at dinnertime we put plastic wrapping, cardboard boxes, plastic lining and tin cans into landfill, which pollutes our environment, destroying the future for the next generation of humans to walk upon our finite planet.
Supermarket chains are constantly found selling products that are over-packaged. Almost 40% of the packaging found in a person’s shopping basket at a supermarket can not be easily recycled. This problem could be solved if recycling services are installed into powerful supermarket chains, which could possibly reduce the 1.8 billion pounds that councils Great Britain would spend toward landfill on rubbish sites across the country. 29 supermarket chains in Birmingham, Essex, Surrey and Bury use different methods to package the products they sell. Out of the 29, Sainsbury’s has the highest amount of recyclable items, whereas Lidl had the lowest. Waitrose, one of the largest supermarket chains in Britain, had the most packaging on it’s products.
Supermarket chains are constantly found selling products that are over-packaged. Almost 40% of the packaging found in a person’s shopping basket at a supermarket can not be easily recycled. This problem could be solved if recycling services are installed into powerful supermarket chains, which could possibly reduce the 1.8 billion pounds that councils Great Britain would spend toward landfill on rubbish sites across the country. 29 supermarket chains in Birmingham, Essex, Surrey and Bury use different methods to package the products they sell. Out of the 29, Sainsbury’s has the highest amount of recyclable items, whereas Lidl had the lowest. Waitrose, one of the largest supermarket chains in Britain, had the most packaging on it’s products.