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Food Packaging and a Simple Paper bag.

I don't know about you but I get fed up with the amount of packaging that our bought goods are subject to these days. Perhaps I am showing my age but I remember going into Woolworths as a little girl and my mum buying what biscuits she wanted and they were all packaged into a simple large paper bag. Even cakes were bought this way and cooked meats were wrapped in greasproof paper as was cheese. I remember wafer biscuits, not just the ones that we know today the pink ones, but different flavoured ones like vanilla, chocolate, coffee, strawberry and other selections to boot and they used to be long twice the size in length of the little pink biscuits we get today. I think perhaps our manufacturers need to take a step backwards to actually move forward. Not only is the packaging excessive it is utilising materials that we don't necessarily need using for this purpose, which is taking a natural habitat somewhere, and removing the richness of wildlife wherever that may be. As a...