Just when I thought that things couldn't get any worse!

I try, I really do try to be environmentally friendly but it's so damn difficult. Despite my best efforts at not buying products with too much, or non-recyclable, packaging and in general trying to be good....Yesterday, my youngest asked for a new water bottle for school so we bought one in Dunnes - into the sink for a wash before use and what pops out but a small sachet of silica gel!



Dangerous for small children, very bad for the environment and totally nonsensical for a plastic bottle. Time was that silica gel was only to be found packed with expensive scientific instruments, binoculars to prevent damp, mildew etc. but this is just crazy! How many million sachets are being put into these plastic bottles worldwide - presumably in China as it doesn't say on the label.

This is the sort of nonsense our government should be tackling and not leave it to the increasingly bewildered public who are not even sure what goes in what bin.