What happens when you dump packaging at the till?

Quasar

Brilliant! No more unnecessary rubbish in my bin! :j

Morty_007

woollyjumper wrote:

I agree with not having all this packaging ... but if I do leave all the packaging on the checkout till - 3 days later want to use my food - where are my cooking instructions ? mmmm.... back at the shop. I would rather take it home in the packaging and ensure the stuff does get recycled.

Hmm, I thought about this too but I think what this campaign is meant to be targeting is "unnecessary" packaging i.e apples in bags, shrink wrapped broccoli, 3 x wrappers on items, extra cardboard sleeves over shrink wrapped items. IMHO the guy who completely unwrapped the sausages, was going too far! We have to have SOME packaging, LESS would be a great start!

Instructions can be printed onto stickers that cover 1/3 of the shrink wrapped surface of an item rather than a cardboard sleeve that encompasses unnecessarilly the whole item again so its a smaller amount of wasted resource.

Prudent

I loved reading this , thank you.

daymo

This will make the average supermarket workers lives more miserable than it already is! Having to put up with crappy management,stroppy customers,poor pay etc, at our local Tesco the staff are timed as to how long they are spending with each customer and if you are off sick then god help you.If you want to do something like this then send all the packaging to head office and not take it out on those on the frontline , who are just trying to pay the mortgage ,feed the kids etc....they do not deserve the hassle.



Just my 2 cents

beer2006

I was thinking about the staff as well, its not really fair on them, not to mention anything you leave there will just get thrown in the normal bin.

We need some packaging, otherwise supermarkets just won't work. You have to be realistic.

I suggest not buying any item that has too much packaging, thats what I try to do. If you want, let the company know, ie Tescos or the manufacturer by letter or email, why you are not buying it.

debtfreehopeful_2

Ive always done this in toy shops, unless buying presents, i hate unwrapping the toys and my council dont recycle cardboard so i always politely ask if they have a bin for me to put the packaging in and so far ive not had a single staff member say no or anything negative and 99% have said how ridiculous the amount of packaging is.
I dont shop in supermarkets so really cant comment on them.
Sue

Poppea

BungleGirl wrote:

Thinking about all this I remember reading a coupld of months ago about a longstanding campaign against McDonalds where local people collected any McDonalds litter and took it back to them and if I remember correctly some actually sent it to their head office.

I don't think that the campaign was actually about the over packaging, probably about the volume of McD's litter on the streets and possibly the materials they use. I have googled for the details but can't seem to put in the right words of phrase to find it.

I'm sure that I read about it on the McSpotlight website - if anyone has better searching skills than me please post the link because I think it was quite inspiring.

It was done on quite a grand scale I beleive in conjunction with the McLibel case so it was I guess just another way for people to campaign against McD's but I thought it was cool!

This might be the link you're talking about?

Debt_Free_Chick

gromituk wrote:

You're missing my point. If you go to a real food shop, the food will be wrapped for you in a clean and hygenic way.

But often just paper, which can go in the compost bin and be put to good use. Unlike all those plastic trays & shrink-wrapping.

Removing all packaging at the till is like the butcher handing you a string of sausages and expecting you to carry them home slung into a shopping bag.

My butcher will happily give me sausages, and anything else, unwrapped if I ask.:D As I often do, because I take my own bag - a small coolbag

Debt_Free_Chick

I think that Ben Bradshaw is hoping that this kind of action will spark the supermarkets into reducing the packaging, so that "one day" this action will be unnecessary. I don't think his intention was that we should be removing packaging at the till forever :rotfl: just until the practice of excessive packaging is removed (or reduced).

It's all very well recycling, but it is, of course, the last resort - reduce, re-use, recycle.

So the idea is to reduce the packaging - and only the supermarkets (and other food producers) can do that.

gromituk

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

But often just paper, which can go in the compost bin and be put to good use. Unlike all those plastic trays & shrink-wrapping.

Yes - that is not what I was arguing against. :rolleyes: