Did you watch Blue Planet II? If not, I can only imagine you were on the moon or in prison. And while the rest of us thoroughly enjoyed the adventures of the deep-sea squid, sharks and the like, I, along with most of the country, was not so impressed by the sight of acres of plastic waste clogging up our oceans - much of it from food, and almost all of it unnecessary.
According to the Blue Planet people, 12m tonnes of the stuff manages to get into our seas and oceans every year, and most of it stays there - floating around to kill birds, fish, even whales.
So why are we so obsessed with wrapping everything in the stuff? Back in the day (yes, I am very old...), vegetables came home in paper bags. They still do if you shop at the market. Yet the big stores envelop everything in plastic, the upmarket ones even putting apples and pears in moulded plastic trays....
