Yesterday I was at home listening to a discussion on Radio Five Live about the wasteful over-use of packaging that you get when you shop at supermarkets. A lot of people phoned in with the required sense of eco-fuelled righteous indignation. What better way to show that you're a moral person than to show your original (because you thought of it first, surely?) anger with supermarket packaging? Here was a wonderful green bandwagon for us all to jump on. The BBC, with its Marxist fear of big business, incited people to go shopping, and then strip their articles of the packaging and leave this behing at the check-out for the supermarket to deal with. That would show them!
I fully agree that wasteful packaging is not a good idea and my wife and I do try to recycle as much as possible. But the moral bandwagon that everyone jumps on is just enough to get up my nose. People were phoning in, falling over themselves to claim their right-on green credentials. Not the sort of medal-demanding greenoids I would want to associate with. And why heap your unwanted packaging on a doubtless hapless check-out operator on minumum wage who really doesn't want to be there? By all means, let's recycle and reduce waste but can we leave the moral posturing behind please?
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