Madam,

More ingenuous words from Theresa May – a 25-year programme to rid us of plastic. How absurd and what a joke - unfortunately the joke is on the general public!

What little choice do the public have when practically everything is packed or wrapped in plastic – it would, despairingly, appear that ‘Theresa May Brexit lethargy’ is being applied to the plastic threat.

Common sense demands manufacturers should be prohibited by law not to use plastic in any form of packaging, with retailers being fined if they accept goods wrapped in plastic – end of problem! It has all been getting out of hand. How long before individual apples are wrapped in plastic, or a single screw or washer?

On a personal level I refuse to buy brown or tomato sauce in plastic bottles. I purchase the glass bottle, not only because of disposable problems with plastic, but also, rightly or wrongly, on what may be leached from a plastic bottle that contains an acidic content.

It is wonderful news to hear that the supermarket Iceland has a five-year plan to eliminate the plastic menace to its own goods. What’s inhibiting other supermarkets?

Theresa May needs to visit Aberporth for a few lessons on how to act now, and by not offering jam tomorrow. Milk is now being delivered in old-fashioned glass, pint bottles and is proving very popular with villagers. Perhaps Gail Tudor, who is heading the Aberporth campaign, should sit in on Cabinet Meetings at Westminster and enlighten ministers?

Yours etc, Dave Haskell, Brynawelon, Penparc, Cardigan.

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