Some people feel that manufacturers and supermarkets have the responsibility to reduce the amount of packaging of goods. Others argue that customers should avoid buying goods with a lot of packaging. Discuss both views and give your opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Should

manufacturers

and marts take the lead to minimize packaging of goods or it is the buyers who should prefer unpacked

things

in order to decrease the number of packaging of

things

to avoid environmental pollution? In

this

regard, there are two diverse opinions: some

people

blame

companies

and shopkeepers for not doing enough to decrease the amount of packaging while others want layman to prefer unpacked

things

. In

this

essay, I shall discuss both views and

also

give my own opinion. No doubt, producers and shop-owners can do a lot to decrease the amount of packaging of their sale-goods in order to keep the environment neat and and clean.

First

, they should not pack the

things

which can easily be sold unpacked

such

as milk and butter as in our villages

people

buy open-milk and unpacked butter, using their own utensils.

Second

, larger size of packing may be helpful to lower down the number of packing, say,

instead

of making one-kilo grams of ghee

packets

,

packets

of five kilo grams may be prepared so that larger quantity may be sold in one packet.

Therefore

, the

companies

and supermarkets can easily take a start to bring down today's figure of

packets

.

Besides

, the role of layman in

this

regard cannot be ignored, they can

also

help the

manufacturers

and mart-owners to pack more quantity in one packet by buying larger

packets

which will be an encouraging point for the

companies

to start a new era and culture of good packings.

Moreover

, when unpacked goods are available and they are not harmful for the health

such

as pulses, dates and grams to name a few, why should they demand them in

packets

? If

people

start avoing

such

kind of packed

things

, they will compel the

companies

to sell them unpacked.

Hence

, in order to discourage the

manufacturers

from packing the everyday usable

things

, the role of

people

can be leading and decisive. In my personal opinion, both parties: producers and consumers, have to actively take part in

this

exercise to minimize the packaging practice, and it can easily be achieved if the government, media and organisations start educating them regardign the harmful effects of packing on on environment in general and on the living

things

in specific. Summing up, it is the responsibility of the

manufacturers

as well as the buyers to take necessary steps to bring down the culture of more and more packaging because all of them are eager to have a healthy sorroundings, and formal and informal education through different sources can definitely boost-up the efforts.