Customers should take direct action against overpackaging and leave any excess wrap at supermarket checkouts, UK environment minister Ben Bradshaw said this week. The minister said that it was unacceptable that packaging had increased by 12 per cent between 1999 and 2005 and now accounts for one third of an average household's total waste. In addition the BBC reported that consumers pay £8 of every £50 food bill on packaging.
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