To boycott Sainsbury’s for their mince packaging!!

[daydi]

Light hearted (ish) but I shop at Sainsbury’s and since they changed their mince packaging I’ve always hated it every time I buy it! It’d be a pain to buy only mince from a different shop so thinking it’s time to part ways!! It’s all so compact together and doesn’t cook as nicely anymore. Does anyone else have this issue or is it just me? Or does anyone have any tips for cooking it?!

Yes Waitrose so some kind of blown up plastic thing.

Shame on M&S

Can I make a suggestion for beef mince aficionados: try chicken mince.

• It’s nearly half the price
• It’s almost 50% less calories for 5% chicken mince vs 10% beef mince
• It has more protein per 100g
• The carbon footprint is a fraction (1/5th or less) of beef mince.
• It’s reasonably tasteless in a ragu, cottage pie or similar saucy meat dish.

We like the Waitrose version.

What part aren’t you getting. It can! It is being recycled and collected from homes and stores,this is due to increase. Soft plastic can and is recycled.In our area all plastics bar crisp packets and netting are being collected for recycling . It’s great.

And you couldn’t recycle the film on the old packaging.

Collected soft plastics will be incinerated for energy recovery, not recycled into new products. In this respect it’s not actually different to black bin waste.

Recycling is when it’s reused. It is incinerated. Anyway. People are allowed to dislike it because it’s disgusting.

It is an evolving process

• Increased investment:
• As the government has announced plans to bring soft plastics into mainstream collection by 2027, there is expected to be more investment in recycling technology.
• Improved collection:
• Trials are underway to add soft plastic collections to curbside services, with the goal of widespread implementation by March 2027.
• Growth in the market:
• Collecting more soft plastic will incentivize recyclers to invest in the necessary technology to process it into higher-quality products, supporting a more circular economy.

It's disgusting. The texture and taste are impacted by the process.

Nice in theory but plastic recycling capacity in the UK is reducing as it’s still cheaper to ship plastic waste, 600 000 tonnes of it a year, abroad. We know that a decent proportion of this is dumped in the ocean, burnt, landfilled. The stuff that is recycled people don’t want to buy. How many of us loathe sweaty plastic clothes made from recycled bottles?

Can the plastic recycling industry be saved? www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv8e0prg9o

My shopping, my choice.

Where I am soft plastic can be recycled but that relies on me going to a shop and then remembering to bring soft plastic. And also finding space in my house to store soft plastics before I go to the shop. Hard plastics just get put out fortnightly with the recycling and is collected from my house.

I know which is more convenient and then gets recycled more