In the last thirty years packaging has developed from a necessity to a wasteful threat. Plastic trash from retail packaging create huge mountains of trash on land and huge garbage patches in our oceans.

Especially modern convenience food is one of the greatest sin: small portions sealed in a huge amount of plastic. In the old days the butches simply wrapped your bacon in same paper …

Designers and the industry have to come up with better sustainable solutions. And we consumers have to support more sensible solutions as well …