Plastic Awareness 

We have treated the environment with contempt, and it is hard to imagine anything more stupid. It appalls all normal people. None of us wants to be part of the problem, but we all are, simply because it is so hard to escape plastic—it surrounds us. During Lent, I along with 40 other Conservative MPs pledged to give up various forms of single-use plastics. It highlighted just how difficult it is. There are plastic cups, water bottles, sandwich wrappers, plastic knives, forks and spoons, plastic straws and plastic stirrers. Totally unnecessarily packaging encases so much of the food and other products we buy in supermarkets.

These things are used for a few seconds but last in the environment for many hundreds of years, and it is not the producers who pay the cost; we all do. The market has simply failed to see the cost of these products, which is why Government action is not only important, it is absolutely essential.

....... Huff Post

Some years ago a Cilfrew resident proved that it is possible to live in our modern society without using plastic packageing.   Even the resident's milk was delivered in returnable glass bottles, as it was for all of us years ago.