London Environment Strategy consultation

More recyclable packaning needed in the shops and as little as possiblen packaging. packaging is too big in most cases. Packaging is mixed and renderd unrecyclable (paper and plastic that can't be separated, tapes around paper..). Make a law to change that. Paper over plastic. Soutwark has got very good recylcing scheme, expand to all of uk. Recycling education and training from nursery school. More specific recycling bins around public areas. Awards for best recyclers.

We are trying to recycle as much as possible. Unfortunately there are a lot of materials which cannot be recycled yet. Also in Fulham there is no option for a green bin. Reducing waste would be best achieved if people would have to pay per bag of waste!

You need to work WITH supermarkets, etc., not just berate them - the plastic packaging is there because we all demanded food that would keep fresh longer.

For recycling, a common London-wide policy would make things easier, both for the individual and the recycling facilities.

The biggest problem is for large blocks of flats, especially the older (mansion) blocks that simply do not have the space for multiple recycling bins. 

For many, it is simply a matter of education, but there are those of us who are trying our best with the tools we have.

We need to ask supermarkets to provide us with the facility to take off the excees cardboard before we leave!  And why are fish packaged in such a way that you need the strongest scissors to get into them? I really struggle as I have arthritis. Often it is the food producers who are at fault and who we need to find a way to change their habits.

We struggle with the amount of cardboard we get from Amazon - whilst we recycle it, the bin is often over-flowing.

I agree all London boro's should provide a food recycling/composting facility for flats.

And what about community wormeries? We have just bought one - with a grant - for our local community garden. We hope to produce good compost and fertiliser but it can't cope with all the waste - but we are trying and composting leaves etc. But why couldn't we acquire one free from our Council or Veolia? Would save them work and cash...

Packaging - put into appropriate box for council collection

Bones etc into council food waste box

Vegatable peelings etc into compost

Spare cooked meat into cat.

We have a hot composter bin in our boiler room. We mix all kitchen waste as vegetarians. Mixed with 50:50 ratio with wood chip given free by tree surgeons. Produces compost in 4 months. No smells. Fully sealed container about size of a wheelie bin. Use compost in garden and on our allotment where we produce 40% of our veggies. 

I try to buy products with the least amount of packaging, where possible. The problem is supermarkets and shops are too quick to wrap everything in plastic packaging.

I do not compost food wast, although I would like to. At Present my local authority provides a small kitchen caddy for food waste, the difficulty is that it has to be emptied into a very large wheely bin for collection. As there are only two of us the amount of food waste is small and sits in the bottom of the wheely bin where it sticks, rots, and smells. 

Last summer for some reason my bin wasn't emptied and I ended up with a bin full of putrid waste, maggots and flies. I had to scrape and clean the bin in the street.

Until there is a more suitable solution, with small compostable bags for the kitchen caddy, I will not risk that horrible mess and smell again.

Sell more things loose - and encourage customers to bring their own containers for items which maybe harder to manage loose. 

ALL of my recyclable packaging is sorted into the appropriate bins and collected by the council. ALL of my food waste (of which there is precious little) is put into the appropriate bin for collection. I used to compost this myself but it took ages to breakdown so now the council collect it and turn it into compost for the garden which is free for residents to collect themselves. When shopping I ALWAYS take bags with me. Yes sometimes I will buy bagged fruit and veg because there is no choice but I never put loose vegetables, fruits etc into those little seperate clear bags. Completely uneccessary!! Sometimes I shun vegetables and fruits which have travelled half way around the world but I dont do that often enough I admit.

I think I am doing my bit for the environment.

All unsustainable packaging should be banned from takeaways and fast food outlets.  Most litter on the streets comes from these sources.  If London set the example other cities would follow suit, very soon all packaging would be biodegradable/sustainable.

The biggest problem with unhealthy eating is that the manufactures put FAR TOO MUCH sugar in cakes etc.

the do this for commercial reasons (sugar is extremely cheap). And enforced food safety legalisation.

extrreme sugar is lethal to bacteria.

Stale food is harmless to you (your taste buds would know if you haven’t been contaminated with excess all you r life). Even if a few defectives die from food poisoning, this would still be magnitudes less then the numbers that die from excess sugar: diabetes and cancer.

l have to eat cakes every day.  ALL of it is horribly too sweet.

At home my cook bakes with fruit juice. It is still too sweet for me. I once baked a rhubarb pie w/o any sweet additions (and the rhubarb was at the sour end of it scale). It was divine for me.

i don’t cook ever. You don’t change gearboxes ever

The environment should be the ONLY consideration.

the rest will follow once this is achieved

Ideally, every Londoner would have access to composting - whether it is their own garden (in which case garden owners need to be educated about the benefits of composting), or a communal facility accessible for both waste composting and compost collection (by whoever needs it).