It would be a lot easier if stuff wasn't sold in packaging, but it is going to take time before that becomes mainstream. In the meantime I think we need both top down and bottom up approaches to avoiding excess and wasteful packaging.

It's worked well in other countries before so it's only slightly annoying it's taken England to follow suit.

I've actually had a few conversations with people who were moaning about how it is going to inconvenience their lives… can you believe it?! Talk about first world problems. I just told them to man the f*** up and get over it!!

I think that all plastic packaging should have some sort of plastic tax on it, in fact any kind of wasteful packaging. I will admit I am a bit of a hypocrit here as I don't go anywhere near to the lengths that you do on avoiding this stuff, but I think that for real impact the changes must be top down, and there must be financial incentives to avoid excess and wasteful packaging. If the companies making the stuff didn't produce the plastic/wasteful packaging, then we wouldn't buy it, simple as.

I've had that too – so frustrating!

I'm delighted by the charge, I think that it is something to remind us that even when something is free there is a cost somewhere.