No not those kind of mushrooms. This one crossed my mind the other day at the supermarket. I was picking up a box of mushrooms when it occured to me what I was getting. About 10-15 mushrooms in a plastic box wrapped in shrink wrap plastic. Now thats quite a bit of plastic. I put the box down and instead grabbed a paper bag and put about the same amount of mushrooms into that. Being a paper bag this would be easier to recycle and take up less space in the bin as it would just fold up. Plus as long as its kept dry the bag could be used again. So by choosing paper bag of mushrooms instead of a plastic box of mushrooms, one will reduce the need and perhaps demand for this packaging method.
Thinking about it one could also do the same for buying other loose vegetables. Not sure if the check out staff would be happy about it but what can they do? Probably worth a shot! And maybe it might encourage supermarkets to make some changes...
Friday, August 3, 2007
Loose Mushrooms
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3 comments:
Great idea :-)
I've seen people in the supermarket taking loose veggies to the till instead of putting them in silly little transparent bags, which is also a terrible waste!
The only down side is that the till attendant man-handles your carrots ;-)
Luke
I agree what you did. I stopped buying organic eggs in plastic because I can not reycle it. I could use the carton for seedlings though...I opt now for the eggs in the paper carton because it is recyclable. Good for you about the veggie and smart thinking. anna www.green-talk.com
Good ideas there people. I must confess I do buy eggs in plastic cartons. Thats mainly because I shop at Tescos. Now I did notice when Tescos moved from cardboard to plastic egg cartons for their value range. It did puzzle me for about 1 second... the change over was a profit one. I must make the effort next time and get ones in cardboard. Any all those value eggs come from battery farms so it would be best to not buy those. But thats a whole other story!
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