Plastic ties that bind

I APPLAUD the Daily Mail’s Turn the Tide on Plastics campaign. We cannot continue to treat our beautiful, fragile planet like an open sewer for chemicals, plastic and other man-made detritus.

We are killing the environment that made us, and we could soon be left with a barren wasteland of rubbish.

I thought retailers were beginning to understand the strength of feeling, so I am dismayed that stores such as Marks & Spencer are still using plastic ties for price labels.

Why can’t they use biodegradable string or a paper sticker? I would happily pay a few pennies more to stop these tiny pieces of plastic entering the environment.

RUTH HARGER, Drimpton, Dorset. NOW, let me get this straight. It has transpired that minute airborne particles of plastic contaminate fish on open counters (Mail).

It therefore becomes necessary to protect people from this by covering fish. In order to do so we will need a material impervious to the particles. Would that be airtight plastic wrap?

P. WILSON, Chester.