A place for plastic?

HAVING watched TV’s Blue Planet and followed the Mail’s ban the plastic p campaign, I am well aware of what our over-use of this product is doing to the environment.

However, without this fantastic invention i some of us would lead very different d lives.

I have Type 1 diabetes and virtually everything I use to control my condition involves plastic, from insulin pens and glucose testing strips s to blister packs of tablets.

JENNY BAXTER, Birmingham. MY EYE drops have changed from one plastic bottle to 56 individual plastic pipettes. What a lot of waste.

P. LISZEWKSKI, Swadlincote, Derbys. I AM horrified to see the effects on oour oceans caused by plastics.

When I was brought up in the Fifties, my family had one metal rubbish bin, less than half the size of any of the three I have now. It was small enough to be hoisted on the bbinman’s shoulder.

Butter and ham were wrapped in ggreaseproof paper. Sweets were bought in paper packets. Milk bottles were returned.

Suppliers of packaged goods have created a huge ecological problem and should have to pay for recycling plants to deal with their rubbish.

ALAN EMBLETON, Newcastle.