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I know I’ve touched on this before with regard to water and plastic bottles but maybe it needs to be more direct? Reading a book from my library, ‘Go make a difference – over 500 daily ways to save the planet’ [by think books], tells it is proven that bottled is no better than tap water but, bottled water uses 1.5 million tonnes of plastic every year! from free water.

So why, do we need to do it for mushrooms, milk, water, compost and peat [especially peat...] etc., when there are alternates in paper/ card that are recyclable?

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Last week I bought some meats and asked the superquinn butcher to take back the plastic & rap it in paper. Is that wrong? As I said before if my work is the earth then I should so my bit for it, rather than just view it from a monetary stance & give nothing back.

I’m not saying one should live like an ape in the jungle - I’m simply saying we should use our common sense and at least when shopping. If we can bring a smoking ban to Ireland surely we can find an alternate to plastic packaging? For the record, I preferred the old milk ‘bottles’.