Have you noticed that you can buy milk in a bag in some supermarkets now?

The milk bags are designed for use with a special milk jug and the idea is that it will reduce packaging – a saving of 75% compared to the plastic bottle. High oil prices mean that reducing the amount of plastic packaging is a very attractive prospect at the moment. And we are not just talking about reducing the amount of oil used for transporting the packaged goods to our supermarkets by reducing the weight of the packaging.  It is all too easy to forget that the plastic bottles themselves are made from oil.

The new milk bags are recyclable – you can take them back to the supermarket for recycling.

I still like to get my milk delivered in reusable bottles from the milkman but, for those that don’t have a doggy-choc carrying milkman, the bag and jug system seems like a good idea.

How hard would it really be to make that decision to never, ever throw a plastic bottle in a rubbish bin (or a hedge or ditch or wherever else lazyitis causes people to chuck stuff)?

With more and more recycling points out and about this is getting to be more realistic all the time. When I was asking one of those nice people at the district council recently about whether we could have a recycling bin at out local park, he mentioned that one of the difficulties with provided recycling points instead of bins is that people often don’t use them properly. Can you believe, people put the stuff in the wrong hole?

I don’t know why people say this, but I’ve heard it said of things, that it is so easy a monkey could use it. I asked a monkey friend of mine and she said she thought it was pimps.

So what if you can’t see a plastic recycling point when you are out and about? I asked the monkey what she thought and she said ‘take it home, that’s pimps too”.

What do you think?