It was put into a serviette, wrapped in a sheet of paper, put in a bag and then squashed into two separate carrier bags.

It took about ten minutes to get back to the sandwiches again.

It wouldn't be so annoying if you didn't have to pay for it, but I'm sure things cost more because they are wrapped in so much rubbish. According to the major supermarkets, packaging is for health and safety reasons – it keeps food fresh.

But it's not just food. Buy any piece of electrical equipment and it normally comes wrapped in a box six times its size.

I think it's a conspiracy theory to keep all the packaging companies in business.

It seems a bit strange that while everyone is getting so hot under the collar about plastic bags, all other kinds of packaging slip through the net.

Forget the eco-bag, next time you're at the supermarket counter, try taking all the packaging off your microwave meal and leaving it there.

For a start, you might be able to get your shopping into one plastic bag instead of three.

Never mind microchips on bins, how much we throw away and where our cast-offs end up, what about the extra cardboard and plastic on the supermarket shelves?

At a time when people are being awarded prizes for melting plastic bags into fuel, I wonder if this means that in ten years we will be rifling through the landfill to get to work.

Instead of worrying about banning plastic bags, maybe we should focus on the real problem and cut the rubbish.

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