Cusade against Market Place Packaging

Most of the waste that housholds need to dispose of each week consists of the excessive packaging used in marketing all consumable products.

Most item purchased are doubly and triply parcelled, origninally intended to protect the product in its journey from the factory to the distribution store and from the store to home.

However such packaging is being used more and more as an advertising media with containers far in excess of the size to merely contain the artiicle inside and more and more as a media to vividly display the merits of the sticle it contains.

The consequence of this practice is to more and fiil peoples hoses with hugh carboard boxes and various form of plastic padding which does decompose readily when deposited in waste disposal sites.

The consequence of these wasteful practises is that the financial budgets of the local municipalities thoughout the country who are ultimately responsible for dealing with waste disposal are being strained unnecessarily to the limit, the smaller communities suffering the most, to the extent that other services in their areas such as education and health support are suffering.

I strongly believe that as this packageing which ultimately ends up as waste that has to be disposed of should be the responsibilty of the companies who produce them in the first place.

These companies should be made responsible for the collection and disposal of all the packaging they include with the merchandise they sell or they should be forced to make compulsary contributions to all the organisation throughout the country current struggling to cope with it.