The subject for this image is the business of producing and supplying us all with food. It juxtaposes images containing rows of packaged goods, with landfill sites where the majority of what is on the shelves will end up. Also in the image are a butcher lifted from a supermarket promotional leaflet, a dinosaur made from plastic bags and a row of white eyed satanic cows ready to be milked.
Too much packaging? Dump it at checkout, urges minister
Shoppers were urged yesterday to take direct action to force supermarkets to cut the excessive and wasteful packaging that goes direct from the shop shelf to the household bin. The environment minister Ben Bradshaw advised food shoppers to leave excessive wrapping at the tills and to report the stores to trading standards in an attempt to cut the amount of unnecessary plastic sent to landfill sites.
Supermarkets' excessive packaging exposed by survey
"If we had less unnecessary packaging, it would cut costs and lead to lower prices at the tills. When packaging is sent to landfill it is expensive for taxpayers and damaging for the environment. Britain is the dustbin of Europe with more rubbish being thrown into landfill than almost any other country in Europe. Taxpayers don't want to see their money going towards paying landfill taxes and EU fines when council tax could be reduced instead."
Landfill tax costs councils £32 for every tonne of rubbish – a figure that will rise to £48 by 2010
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