Let’s shop more sustainably and demand that major supermarket chains reduce and remove packaging. As an average householder I struggle with the lack of choice to do good for the environment. Most GREEN products are more expensive and still come with too much packaging. We all want to leave a healthy planet for our grandkids but how can we without CHOICE. While more companies are making the effort to use sustainable ingredients and recycled packaging, Woolworths and Coles are increasing their packaging and plastics use. More and more plastic is being shipped off shore or going to landfill! The average consumer needs to have a choice. And less packaging means lower production costs. Help me make a change and sign this petition! 

These are some of the efforts being trialled in other countries like the UK: 

• Produce unpacked- loose fruit and vegetable products 
• Frozen pick and mix- Frozen mango, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, pineapple and raspberries are packaging free and available as pick and mix.
• Plastic removed from flowers and plants and replaced with 100% recyclable and 100% PEFC certified craft paper.  
• Detergent and washing up liquid refillables- partner with Eco friendly products and provide an automatic detergent and washing up liquid dispenser where customers can refill their reusable containers.
• Wine and beer refillables- Four different wines and four different beers available on tap to take home in reusable bottles to cut down on the use of glass bottles.
• Coffee refills- Customers can grind one of four coffees in store to take home in a reusable container to reduce glass and plastic packaging.   
• Essential refillables- 28 products including pasta, rice, grains, couscous, lentils, cereals, dried fruit and seeds have been taken out of packaging and will be available through dispensers
• Borrow-a-box scheme- In a UK first, shoppers can borrow-a-box from store to shop with and then take home before returning on their next visit.  
• All Woolworths and Coles own-brand packaging will either be widely-recycled, reusable or home compostable by 2023.
• The supermarkets will remove black plastic from all its own-brand products by the end of 2019. Remove hard-to-recycle black plastic on its fresh meat, fish, poultry, fruit and veg.
• Single-use plastic bags for loose fruit and veg bags replaced with a home compostable alternatives.