Sainsburys face prosecution for over packaging

Gers

Morrisons are MUCH worse - shrink-wrapped peppers, courgettes etc. I've only been once and didn't buy anything. Cucumbers do benefit from the wrapping but not other veg or fruit.

Sometimes, if I'm feeling particularly annoyed, I'll take off the extra packaging and leave it with the shop. Mainly things that come in those stiff plastic boxes for hanging on racks, like printer cartridges or cables, I always ask the assistant to remove the plastic and walk out with the tiny article I wanted in the first place. Keeps my trips to the recycle depot down and makes a (polite) point, I hope.

Barney,_BrightGreenBrands

On a more positive note, Waitrose are apparently moving to sleeve-wrapped packaging...

google 'packagingnews waitrose meat' (MSExpert wont let me post link)

Hopefully it will be accepted and others will soon follow. Long overdue I say.:D

Barney

lucylucky

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

My partner and I were talking about this before he went to work. He pointed out that the picture of the products without packaging had raw meat next to other fresh food. He stated himself that that would be a contamination and health issue. Some foods, such as meat, need packaging of some kind. Even when you buy meat at the butcher they wrap it up in a plastic bag. Things like chocolare fingers, jaffa cakes, croissants etc are impossible to sell lose so they are going too far with those.

Yes most supermarkets have over packaging problems - I've never understood why they put a cucumber in plastic for example - however Sainsburys is not the only offender and I doubt they are even the worst! Supermarkets do need to lower the packaging on their products but it's not just supermarket own products that do this. Big companies that sell their products through supermarkets and other stores need to rethink their packaging also. However they are all going to argue that packaging is how they sell their product and they are right as that is why a lot of people will buy the more costly product even though the products are exactly the same (or near enough).

Eh?!

I will need to tell my local supermarket to stop selling loose croissants then, and I'll have a word with the bakers about all those cakes that aren't well wrapped up.

Doom_and_Gloom

lucylucky wrote: »

Eh?!

I will need to tell my local supermarket to stop selling loose croissants then, and I'll have a word with the bakers about all those cakes that aren't well wrapped up.

Loose as in no packaging what so ever - like a bag to put them in. They had them without anything in the picture with no plastic bag around them. You can't sell them like that as it isn't healthy and risks serious contamination issues.

marvin

Farway wrote: »

I heard it, but as far as I know there is no law about "overpackaging" [I stand to be corrected on this]

Here comes the correction there are laws on excess packaging and this is the first (maybe a test) case but it is the packaging that has brought the prosecution.

I liked the comment in one report, "A sainsburys spokesperson was dumbfounded" nothing new there then!

cestlavie

overpackaging drives me bonkers. why all this plastic bases instead of cardboard that cld be rcylced? if i buy three "punnets" of strawberries my bin is full. i do my best to avoid products overly wrapped, but it's hard.