Plastic packaging and tins half full

why are you all still buying products like this then? Tell the manufactuer that you want less packaging or at least it must be from a recycled product. When I buy toothpaste, after buying it, I send the box back to the manufactuer in an un-stamped enveloppe just to piss the post boy off. or with junk mail, send it back to them with a terse comment to their managing director. try doing something to change the un-needed packaging instead of doing nothing ,before we all get nuked anyway. ho-hum xx

To address a point made in the original gripe regarding items such as soap powder, drinking chocolate and gravy granules. The reason that the 'pot' is only three quarters full when you open it is that the contents have settled during storage. When these pots are filled by machine they contain much more air and take up the whole pot. I can't comment on the pills though as I am sure that the same principal does not apply to them.

I had lunch today (Wednesday) with my daughter in law at Tesco in Camberley, and we both had a jacket potato, but were surprised to find that the tuna and coleslaw were in separate CONTAINTERNS WITH LIDS. I thought it was Tesco's policy to reduce packaging due to this reason, we did not enjoy our lunch as we felt short changed not to mention the waste of resources, I look forward to hearing your comments in the not too distant future.

I do find it ridiculous when I buy a box of cakes to find that they're in a cardboard box, covered in plastic, then in a plastic tray, THEN in a silver foil cake case.

4 pieces of packaging for one tiny kiplings bakewell?!

Humans are doomed.

I think that packaging should be fully recyclable, including as much free space as necessary when inflated with a lightweight gas to render the product lighter than air. Deliveries could be arranged like netted balloons at a funfair, lead by robot driven blimps, using a combination of drifting on the prevailing winds or running on photovoltaic motors, all arranged in very long floating convoys - I'm thinking shiney silver with funky logos, I've done a sketch and I think it's a goer!

I can see what is being said about dry products but manufacturers do try and make their products look like more.I recently bought a well known brand of Ice cream cone in a box of eight.The foil wrapping around the outside had a circular disk at the top which was about three quaters of an inch above the ice cream thus making the product look a lot larger.This was not just one individual cone but each one was packed exactly the same.To me this is a deliberate ploy by the manufacturers to make shoppers think they are getting good value for money.In future when I shop ,I will buy by weight rather than looks.

The same happens here in Europe as well. Especially the enviromental questions should be though of while thinking of the packaging. At least there is some choice here in Finland and it is service desks. Trying to use grossery strores that have servise and buy all the food products wrapped in paper.

Fair gripe but I have to side slightly with the manufacturers on this one. All of the products mentioned are dry products and the contents settle after filling. Manufacturers have to make the containers large enough to hold the quantity that the filling machine is going to dispense. If you think you are being short changed check the weight.

Packaging is like that mainly because it can make the product look bigger etc.

What you need to do is remember it and adjust your expectation accordingly.