Are we now living in a “throwaway society”?

It seems these days too much is packaged and then packaged again. Take “disposable” batteries. They now come in vacuum-formed plastic (virtually impossible to open without a blow torch) and then another plastic bag is used at the till.

Nearly everything we buy at supermarkets comes in some sort of package or other. Fancy fish and chips? in the old days we had them wrapped in newspaper, but now they have to be hygenically placed in plastic trays, which incidentally you pay extra for. At a local seaside resort recently I was saddened to find the tide wash up countless numbers of these trays and see waste bins overflowing to capacity with them.

The Government pays lip service to all of this, because what is coming next? The Digital Age, which will see countless useful radios and TV’s being scrapped because they no longer will work.

Today’s technology is one of a throwaway culture, where designed obsolescence is a dead certainty.

Phil Shepherdson, Chantry Close, York.