Better late than never

In the early 80's I worked in a wholefood shop. We used to pack our food into biodegradable plasic bags. I'm really glad that a start is being made to make this more 'normal':

Starting this week, the supermarket [Sainsbury's] will use compostable packaging instead of plastic for almost half of its organic fruit and vegetable products, rising to 80% by January. The scheme will extend to all Sainsbury's ready meals by September 2007. The company's compostable packaging consists of maize, sugar-cane or starch so it can naturally break down in a garden compost heap and need not be binned and sent to a landfill.

I hope it'll spread, I really like the idea of being able to put even more in the composter. Our bin waste will dwindle to virtually zero if the plastic gets compostable.