[BrexitBen]

What about plastic packaging for bread, meat and seafood ?

Hell, for at least 50% of the items on store shelves.

It would be far more productive to outlaw brain-dead politicians.

[jonrick46]

I have a source who will recycle all of the plastic material that people throw away in their garbage can--or out their car window. Those Styrofoam trays for meats, plastic bread bags, plastic bagging around garments, foam rubber, bubble wrap, Styrofoam "peanuts," plastic grocery bags, foam plastic padding, Styrofoam insulation, Styrofoam "clam-shells," shrink wrap, and Saran Wrap.

Autocratic politicians ignorant of the capability to recycle such material, are just power freaks who exist because of an uninformed public.

Those processing centers for such materials should be located in the United States. Those Asian countries have no regulations. When their processing centers get overloaded with too much material, they actually load up a ship and dump it in the ocean. Countries that are doing this will have their shores littered with that material as it drifts back to shore.

[ridesthemiles]

All THAT packaging will completely disappear when FOSSIL products are no longer allowed.

[bgill]

The meat I purchased today was originally packaged in plastic, then the grocery person put it into another plastic bag because meat juice gets all over and finally put it into a regular plastic grocery bag. Then I used plastic gloves to bring it inside. Finally, after portioning it for the freezer, it went into freezer baggies. Do I care? No.

Tomatoes went into a plastic bag to keep them from rolling around.

BTW, reuse the produce bags to cover your seedlings. It’s the same material they sell for $$$ at garden centers.