DOG FOOD

NO: Cesar Deliciously Fresh 8 x 100g pouches

YES: Pedigree Chum 6 x cans The little white pooch on the front of the Cesar pouch looks very happy but Mr ellin most certainly is not. ‘Pouches are horrendous,’ he says.

The problem is they are made from multiple layers of different plastic, sometimes also with an aluminium layer. More than ten billion plastic-aluminium packets containing baby food, pet food and drinks are sold each year in the UK but fewer than one in 20,000 is recycled. Two-thirds are sent to landfill sites.

If you want to recycle, buy a can. The steel cans that Pedigree Chum comes in can be put in your kerbside bin, but make sure they are rinsed out first.