(21 April 2020) Stumbling out of isolation and blinking in the harsh sun as I went on a search for marrowfat peas I started thinking about Jacob Rees-Mogg which was perturbing and one I will return to on another day. (We haven’t heard from him in a while, I hope he is all right).
I succeeded in my task at a local supermarket; thus, emboldened I went in search of tinned goods. They had tomatoes and baked beans (in separate tins). I bought some.
This is not interesting but the rant is about Unnecessary Packaging particularly Plastic.
The tomatoes were 30p each or four for a quid. All loose tins.
The beans were the same price but wrapped in quite strong plastic which was not recyclable so will be off to landfill.
The till, once it counted four tins of tomatoes, knocked 20p off my bill.
It could have done the same with the beans so there was no justification at all. One piece of plastic but it would only require 3,000 of them to pointlessly cover the pitch at Wembley (a football stadium for my continental readers).
The supermarket has over 450 stores so assuming all these baked beans are snapped up (- it was an attractive price) then this unnecessary wrapping would more than cover the football pitches of all the professional pitches in the UK. This is probably not right.
This was a small thought so to eke out my precious and diminishing supply of kittens here is a plant.
