The west's throwaway culture has spread waste worldwide.Packaging – much of it single-use food wrapping – has created a rubbish problem that now pollutes every corner of the world.

In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which they would then casually toss overboard when done. That was OK, because the leaves decayed and the fish ate the scraps.

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