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This whole business about waste is caused by the supermarkets. It's they who hand out them out on mass, and same applies to packaging. As soon as you get the item it home you rip the packaging up, so there's not much point to it to start with.
Well, That's not actually true is it 
The packaging is normally there to keep the food from going off quickly, With the packaging the food will last weeks, Months, Even years, But if it was just slopped onto a shelf then it would go off within a day or so lol.
Most packaging can be recycled these days anyway so it's up to us really, Cardboard boxs, Tin cans, Glass bottles, Plastic boxes etc etc they all can be recycled, It just if we can be assed to do it lol and not just throw it all into the same bin 