My high school best friend and I took a field trip to a waste transfer station in Vancouver, Canada, and we were just astounded by how much plastic packaging goes to landfill.
They actually told me that what they do is they have silly string, plastic wrap, shrink wrap and they even make those thlip sounds with their voices and it's all integrated into making our awesome web sounds.
Well, I think that lots of people are trying to cut down on plastic packaging, so the idea is that they bring their own containers and fill them up with anything from pasta to washing up liquid.
" Given plastic packaging's many benefits, both the likelihood and desirability of an across-the-board drastic reduction in the volume of plastic packaging used is clearly low, " the report said.
But the country's own record on single-use plastic is hardly exemplary: Japan generates more plastic packaging waste per capita than any other country except the United States, according to the UN.
Something very exciting that is happening in Hobart is we are introducing a by-law for our city to ban single-use plastic containers from our city businesses.
On 1 January this year, the French government banned supermarkets and other shops from selling 30 types of fruits and vegetables – including cucumbers – in plastic wrapping.