The Green Quest

Well, I’m on the “going greener” band wagon again.

I’ve been reading an article on the BBC website about one of their reporters who is trying to not buy any new plastic for an entire month. It means that she is trying to not buy anything that has plastic in it, around it or on it.

Its made exceptionally interesting reading, and its made me think. So much so, this weekend on our usual shopping trip (without the last antics of tantrums and parking worries) I tried, and failed rather spectacularly, to not buy plastic.

I think it’s a great thing that this person at the BBC is doing, and from other blogs and comments I’ve read can see the real benefits of not using plastic, but at the same time I think we have to be at least a little bit realistic.

For the vast majority of us who shop at the usual large supermarkets shopping without plastic is virtually impossible, as discovered by me at the weekend. We came away with just one thing that didn’t have some kind of plastic in its packaging – bananas. And I’m sure that if I really investigated the true origin of those it would involve plastic of one type or another at some stage in their growing and shipping life, not to mention the obvious food miles its taken to get them to the store.

It really is amazing to think that so much of what we consider perfectly normal and ordinary has a wrapping on it that is threatening to wrap our world.