Originally Posted by
benshep
it's not supermarkets. it's society - the consumer, all of us! retail and manufacturing industry provide what the consumer demands with their spending power and habit. sldo bear in mind plastic itself is not evil - the problem is what we as society do with it. how we consume and discard. the way to tackle it is a very complex social and economic issue. there need to be priorities such as reducing use of difficult-to-recycle plastics; designing it out of the supply chain; in some cases bans on single-use plastics such as stirrers and cotton buds are justified.
every single person needs to take responsibility for their own behaviours.
to say supermarkets are 'to blame' is naive and arrogant, in my view.
and don't forget that plastic pollution is only one of many many environmental and societal issues we should be concerned with, and not necessarily THE priority.