Magazine wrapper

Why not just subscribe to the on-line edition. No wrapper of any sort, no paper, no printing ink just a lot of electrons.......

Apparently potato starch wrappers take about 12 months to rot down so my local council says do not include them in 'green waste' as they are looking for a 6-9 months for composting.

They now go in landfill as a result. 

Like the RSPB, English Heritage and the Camping and Caravanning Club now also use a magazine wrapper made from potato starch which is fully home compostable or can be placed in the domestic garden waste bin.  When is our club going to catch up? 

"Recycling" the polythene wrapper as a dog waste bag or bin liner is only a partial solution as does not remove it from the environment.

Claiming, as some magazine issuers do (not yet the C&MC, I believe), that the polythene wrapper can be recycled at "larger stores" is a cynical attempt to pass the solution to us, the consumers - as always - rather than remove the problem at source.

All members should campaign to make our club take action and either follow the Camping and Caravanning Club's lead or switch to a paper envelope.  Write to the Club now to demand action.

We get the Camping Club mag which says the wrapper can be put in the garden waste bin, the food waste bin or on a compost heap... as we have none of the above, it goes in the landfill bin. 

A food recycling caddy will be with you shortly according to the Government!!! We have had them for years here in MK.

David

Same here, Justus, but it’s not a problem as it will decompose in landfill.

I don't have food that needs recycling unless you are talking about potato peelings.

I've just received the January C&MC magazine.  In small print on the wrapper it says "The Poly Wrap for this magazine is recyclable.  Please recycle responsibly".  What a cop-out!  Most local authorities do not have kerbside collection of this type of plastic and many of us don't have ready access to "larger stores".  The result is that most of it will go to landfill. 

My answer is "Please package the magazine responsibly".  Recycling simply means the plastic will eventually find its way into the environment in another form.  The only solution is to totally eliminate unnecessary plastic packaging at source.

So you don't have egg shells, plate scrapings, banana skins, chicken carcasses, tea bags etc etc?  Our brown bin is at least half full at every fortnightly collection and that's without the garden waste which the local allotment society collect and turn into compost available for free collection by local residents.

So we are really talking about organic waste rather than "food" waste. Wasting food is anathema to me. Probably why I don't lose weight as well.