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.
09 September 2006
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':
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I didn't know biodegradable plastic bags were already around in the 80s. It makes me wonder why those bags haven't reached my corner of the world yet. And I know they're just as bad as plastic, but paper bags have never been widespread here as well, since plastic's more commonly used. Seems like we have a lot of catching up to do.
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