What you can do

Here's what you can do to cut back on food-packaging waste:

 Buy fruit and vegetables loose or in paper bags

 Take bags with you to the supermarket
 Get into the habit of carrying a spare bag for spontaneous
shopping
 Choose larger sizes rather than individually packaged portions.
Buy a single larger size container (yoghurt, for example) and
decant into smaller jars or containers as needed
 Look for biodegradable packaging, such as cardboard or
cornstarch-based containers and buy these instead of alternatives
wrapped in bulky plastic or polystyrene
 Find out if there's a local milkman who will deliver in glass bottles
that can be used over and over again
 Ask supermarket managers what they're doing to reduce
packaging waste and insist that they step up their efforts