Waste not. . .

The British supermarket chain Asda is asking its customers (well, some of them anyways) to return all excess packaging on the stuff they buy in order to put pressure on big name brands to stop producing so much waste. The move comes as a British minister called on shoppers to leave their excessive and iften completely unnecessary packaging behind wherever they buy it. Sounds like a fine idea to me but if you try it in Ireland you could face prosecution for littering as retailers who join the recycling initiative Repak here automatically absolve themselves of all responsibility for the ridiculous amounts of plastic and cardboard that encases almost everything we buy.