The Spectator

Letters | 25 January 2018

Also in Letters: why Darkest Hour is worth seeing, tax and Sir James Dyson’s farms

issue 27 January 2018

Reasons to use less plastic

Sir: Yes, packaging from petrochemicals is bad, but what if we set out to use less of it? Like Ross Clark, I was once dismayed by wilting vegetables in my village shop (‘The great plastic panic’, 20 January). Then the shop closed, to be replaced by a community shop and café which stocks produce from local farmers and steers away from excess plastic packaging.

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