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Firstly I would like to thank you for supporting Eco Hive, things are really moving along now. I’m sure we will see more exciting developments in the near future.  Cheers.

Has anyone noticed that many businesses have ‘sustainability at heart’ yet their actions seem to suggest otherwise?

I often grumble whenever I’m in a supermarket and the excessive product packaging is visible on every

shelf, whilst having to put an extra layer on myself as I walk through the labyrinth of open faced fridges and freezers. I wonder how they would react if I left any excess packaging from my basket at the till? I think it really quite a visual protest, actually. Has anyone adopted this particular protest tool? If so, please tell me how it went!!

Plastic containers consume lots of energy and resources in the manufacturing processes and cardboard is made of paper/wood pulp which needs to be sourced from somewhere (and cheaply!). The transport of overly packaged products means there are more lorries on the roads and more freighters needing shipping, all making environmental impacts and carbon footprints needlessly high. With fuel and energy prices as high as they are I would have thought that there would be a much greater initiative in industry to solve these inefficiencies.

Enough supermarket bashing for the moment! (Although I’m sure they will wander past my sights again!). These inherent environmental inefficiencies are found in many many businesses.

I bought some items online from a reputable high-street store only this week and when it arrived I almost fell over when I saw what the product was delivered in… A box well over four times the size of its contents and packaged with 28 foot of paper!! Someone must be having a laugh at mine and the worlds expense! I’m sure my purchase wasn’t packaged by a non-sentient robot however the tool responsible for this oversight seems to be no smarter… Needless to say, I had a word with the offending company in the hope that the lowly customer might be able to instigate some kind of positive action.

Atleast Im not the only one saying it!

I know that packaging is not the biggest issue but it is an ongoing one and it highlights the vast array of small, simple ways in which we can improve the efficiency of the world around us. So if you do one thing today to improve our environment… perhaps you should ask the supermarket manager to recycle your shopping waste for you. I’m sure she / he might get the idea after the office inbox becomes full of wasted plastic and cardboard!

So get involved, get in contact!

Thanks for keeping an eye on the environment and another on us.