Most shops are just landfill waiting to happen.

I do not know anyone who gets a new outfit for Easter. I understand kids under 5 having an outfit/top with Peter Rabbit, bunnies, lambs, flowers.

I will be wearing a hoodie, comfy trousers and trainers, my usual dress sense this time of the year.

I thought exactly the same at those headlines, though I clicked on them all annoyed and it turns out they're for growing children.

I noticed that… !

FFS even mumsnet are at it. On my list of threads we have :

"In need of a complete new wardrobe" and "Have you got outfits for Easter?"

Totally agree. We sort of have something like this for manufacturers in the UK. Manufacturers have to declare the amount of packaging they place on the market and they are charged a fee accordingly. So there's defiantly things happening in the background - maybe not enough. I think the voucher thing is a great idea.

Seasalt are good at not using excess packaging

I was out shopping today and there was just piles of stuff to buy in Dunelm and M&S. I can understand why people succumb. So much choice.

I didn’t and bought groceries

We have to make changes. We have to produce less and we have to cut back on waste

I certainly agree but I think incentives often work better than banning products.
What about giving monetary incentives to people if they produce less than a certain amount of waste. Or giving out vouchers to people if they use a repair srvice instead of throwing away their washing machine.
I would also love for celebrities to endorse that lifestyle. Taylor Swift or Kate Middleton were 50% vintage clothes would certainly send a stronger message than some virtuous preaching.

I find the thought of poor people not being able to afford good quality clothing annoying too.
And unless you want the newest Brand sneaker or have the most eclectic taste everything you want can be bought second hand. It might take more effort for some items but just typing black shirt into vinted isn't that hard.

Do you just want to limit production in China and not world wide, it seems to be a world wide issue

Why should we in the UK worry about fewer production jobs in China?

We have to make changes. We have to produce less and we have to cut back on waste.

Nice sentiment but that’s all it is, less production means less jobs, more unemployment, more unemployment means more social problems and a bigger drain on the economy ……there can be a snowball effect to all of this

Anyway who is going to dictate to a company / companies to stop production

Construction products already have to do this - not by law, but in order to win contracts.

My point was that no one seems to care about the huge waste of plastic on wrapping "big" items, and obsess about carrier bags and straws.

When we had our G-Plan sofas delivered, they came in a cloth handling bags with handles etc - no cardboard, no plastic. Re-usable, the delivery guys took them away with them for future deliveries.

So there are options. Trouble is that plastic is cheap which is why it's used. Consumers should be willing to pay that bit extra for more sustainable delivery options or at least ask at the furniture store about packaging. But I'd imagine most consumers don't give it a second thought. They're happy with their virtue signalling obsessing about the small stuff.

Clothes never used to be individually wrapped between factory and shop. They were sent in bundles. Now virtually every item is unnecessarily singly packed in plastic bags. You seen the shop workers unpacking individual items before putting on racks/shelves, and those individually wrapped items are already packed in larger packed bundles or boxes. Completely unnecessary. Huge waste for no reason at all. The items would still be clean and neat if they just came in their bundles/boxes. It's not as if they were left unpackaged in the back of a lorry!

Would people go back to soap bars and get rid of shower gel and liquid soap?

We have swapped to shampoo bars and I much prefer bars of soap for washing my hands and body. Definitely noticed less plastic in the recycling bin. Vast reduction in plastic if we can persuade manufacturers to change

Not too sure, tbh.

Some things yes, but I think are too far gone.
Then Again, just buy a bloody apple and don’t get a stupid plastic pot with a ready peeled grape or something.

@SummerDaytoNight how to make a bag out of an old tshirt - with NO SEWING.

https://www.instructables.com/No-Sew-10-Minute-T-Shirt-Tote/

I would support the following:

Agree a total ban on plastic grass. Exemption for community football pitches etc.

Massive import taxes on Shein or Cider or any of the other shitty fashion companies, and tat-merchants like T*mu, and all the shite imported to fill seasonal aisles in stores. Like a 200% or more levy, ringfenced for environmental offsetting or to support local businesses. If your shitty £5 dress from Shein suddenly costs £15, you might think twice about how much you're buying.

Increased/doubling VAT for any other brands like H&M or Primark unless they change their business model to stop the churn of waste and constant new products.

Tax breaks as there are in France for repairing items rather than chucking away and buying new.

Total ban on posting social media content containing the word "haul" unless you are operating a trucking company.

They didn’t buy that much.

They bought locally, seasonally.
no pots of chopped pineapple.

No ready made mash or porridge.

Families used to cook and preserve.

It was more wooden crates?